Martina Christiane Kotthaus received her PhD in organic chemistry from the Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster, Germany, and performed her postdoctoral research in the laboratories of Prof. M. Schlosser at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She has more than 20 years‘ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, starting as a research chemist in drug discovery at Hoechst Roussel Vet/Intervet, then moving into customer manufacturing of APIs, before various positions in R&D at DSM and Patheon (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Since January 2019 Martina has worked as Site Director at LGC GmbH in Luckenwalde, Germany. She has published many articles in international journals and is the inventor of several patents.