Since 2005, I've been working and researching in the field of synthesis, characterization, and application of artificial phospholipids. First on the academic side as a PhD student, research associate and independent group leader at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany – later as a deputy professor for Pharmaceutical Bioanalytics at the University of Greifswald, Germany. Since December 2019, I've been representing the Phospholipid Research Center Heidelberg, Germany as deputy managing director; and since February 2021, as managing director. I was also elected President of the newly formed DeChAt Local Chapter (Germany-Switzerland-Austria) of the Controlled Release Society in March 2024. Specialties: synthesis of artificial, i.e. not naturally occurring, mono- and bipolar (phospho)lipids including fully synthetic and partial biochemical approaches; physicochemical characterization of these lipids in 2D and 3D assemblies and their miscibility with each other and with 'classical' phospholipids, mainly using calorimetric methods (DSC), infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR, ATR), x-ray and neutron scattering techniques (SAXS, SANS), electron microscopy (TEM, cryo-EM, FFEM), and mass spectrometry; application of photo-reactive membrane lipids for the study of lipid/peptide and lipid/protein interactions as well as application of stabilized liposomes for (oral) drug delivery using, for example, modified bipolar phospholipids (bolalipids, bolaamphiphiles).