has been a specialist pharmacist for pharmaceutical technology since 2007 and holds the lectureship for pharmaceutical technology at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He studied pharmacy there, followed by a doctorate at the university's Chair of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy. Since 2005, he has been a speaker and science journalist with a focus on life science and science communication. For many years he has been dealing intensively with the legal and pharmaceutical questions related to the processing of medicinal cannabis in pharmacies and is one of the leading experts in this field.