**Duane Choquesillo-Lazarte**

Duane Choquesillo-Lazarte received his PhD in Pharmacy in 2006 from the University of Granada. Being a pharmacist, he was interested in crystallography and soon recognized the extraordinary potential that the structure–property paradigm has in the rational development of high-quality research and, therefore, the relevant role that chemical crystallography has in designing new molecules based on structural knowledge. He has been a senior research scientist at the Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalograficos at the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences, CSIC ´ in Granada, Spain since 2017. His research focuses on the design of multicomponent molecular materials (i.e. pharmaceutical cocrystals) in order to overcome biopharmaceutical limitations and drug manufacturing constraints. He also has a particular interest in the development of experimental/virtual cocrystal screening methods and crystallization methods using supramolecular gels. This research area stems from a fundamental interest in understanding intermolecular interactions in molecular systems.
