Prof. Dr. Johannes (Hans) Bartholomäus studied Pharmacy (1979-1983) at the TU Braunschweig, Germany, followed by the practical year in the Adler Apotheke, Borken, and Kettelhack Riker Pharma, Borken (1983-1984). He finished his thesis at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology of TU Braunschweig under the supervision of Prof. Dr. C. Führer (1988). Hans started his industrial career at Grünenthal GmbH as Head of the Solid Oral Dosage Forms Lab and from 1992 to 2008 he was heading Pharmaceutical Development of Grünenthal. In 2009 Hans started his own Pharmaceutical Development Consultancy. Besides, he is an invited lecturer (since 2001) for Industrial Pharmacy and Honorary Professor (2009) at TU Braunschweig. Currently he is teaching pharmaceutical quality system for Master of Pharmaengineering. His special professional interests are Drug Delivery, Life Cycle Management, IP Management, Quality
Systems, Drug Stability, Clinical Supplies and Pharmaceutical Development Strategies including Quality by Design. Hans became member of APV during his Ph.D. studies mid of the 1980ies. He was a co-founding member of APV’s Drug Delivery Focus Group in 2003 and became chairman of this group from 2014 to 2018. He was member of the program committees of the
1^st  European Conference on Pharmaceutics in Reims (2015) and the 11th World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology in Granada (2018). Since 2018 he is a member of the Board of APV.