Stefan Schiller is a professor at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He obtained his education in chemistry from Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He has a diploma in bioorganic chemistry and earned his doctorate in bioorganic chemistry with a focus on biomimetic membranes from Johannes Gutenberg University/Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, the IBM Research Center Almaden, San Jose, and Stanford University. He completed his postdoctoral research in chemical and synthetic biology with Prof. Peter G. Schultz at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA. As a Junior Research Fellow, he is leading an independent research group at the Albert-Ludwigs-University/Freiburg and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).