under Prof. S. Claesson. Holding 24 industrial patents and author of more than 120 publications, he has lectured at several European universities. His current interest is in the photochemistry and physical chemistry of polymers. He is a member of the Czech Chemical Society. Stefaan De Smedt was born in Geraardsbergen, Belgium, in 1967. He studied pharmacy at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and received his M.S. degree in pharmaceutical sciences in 1990. As a scholar of the Belgian Institute for the Encouragement of Scientific Research in Industry and Agriculture, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Ghent, under the direction of Prof. J. Demeester. He studied rheology at the Catholic University of Leuven. He received the Scott Blair Biorheology Award in 1993−1995 for his work on the structural characterization of hyaluronan solutions. To study diffusion phenomena in polymer solutions, he collaborated with Prof. Y. Engelborghs at the Laboratory of Biomolecular Dynamics of the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1995, he joined the pharmaceutical development group of Janssen Research Foundation. Since 1997 he has been a postdoctoral fellow of F.W.O.-Vlaanderen at the Laboratory of General Biochemistry and Physical Pharmacy of the University of Ghent. He is a member of the Controlled Release Society, the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Belgian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences, the European Society of Rheology, the Belgian Biophysical Society, and the Polymer Networks Group. He is a consultant to the Journal of Controlled Release and to Pharmaceutical Research. His current research interests include the mobility and interactions of macromolecular drugs in pharmaceutical polymer matrixes and biological polymer systems.

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