**About the Editor**

**Andrea Erxleben** obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Dortmund (now TU Dortmund) in 1995. Following postdoctoral work with Professor Jik Chin at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, she returned to Dortmund where she completed her "habilitation" and obtained the "venia legendi" for Inorganic Chemistry in 2002. She moved to the National University of Ireland Galway where she is now a Senior Lecturer. She held gues<sup>t</sup> professorships at the University of Vienna and is a member of the Editorial Board of *Pharmaceutics* and the Editorial Advisory Board of *Crystal Growth and Design*. Her research interests are in the fields of Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Solid-State Chemistry.
