Dr. Kathrin Bartscher studied Pharmacy at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Muenster (Germany). After finishing her doctoral thesis at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics in Muenster under supervision of Prof. Dr. R. Gröning in 2006 she joined NextPharma as formulation scientist. In 2013 she was appointed as Head of Drug Product Development at the NextPharma site in Waltrop. 2016 she took over the global responsibility for the development activities at all NextPharma sites and joined the NextPharma board in July 2017 as Chief Scientific Officer. She was initiator of the first APV local in Dortmund. She is board member of the APV since 2014, and from 2014 to 2023 she held the position of treasurer of the APV.