Professor Thomas Rades is the Research Chair in Pharmaceutical Design and Drug Delivery in the Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen. He has developed an international reputation for his research in the physical characterization of drugs and solid dosage forms. He has published more than 500 papers in international peer reviewed journals as well as 17 book chapters, 13 patents and 3 books. Professor Rades is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics. He holds honorary doctorates of Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Helsinki University, Finland, and an honorary professorship at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is an Eminent Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UK), a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientist (AAPS), the Controlled Release Society (CRS), and the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (NZIC). He has over 500 publications that have been cited over 29000 times, and his publication h-index is 90.