Maria Vertzoni is Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics, Department of Pharmacy, National Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. She received her Bachelor in Chemistry in 1994, her Master of Science in Analytical Chemistry in 1999 and her Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2004 from NKUA. In 2016, she received her Master of Science in Medical and Pharmaceutical Statistics from Athens University of Economics and Business. Research interests focus to the physicochemical characterization of intraluminal environment, oral drug absorption with special interest in special populations. She is currently supervising 2 PhD Theses. She is co-author of more than 95 peer reviewed papers and chapters in international journals and books (h-index 35). She is/has been involved in several EU funded training and research programs, i.e. AGePOP (coordinator), PEARRL (PI), InPharma (PI), OrBiTo and COLOTAN, and one COST action, i.e. UNGAP (WG leader).