Elena Sánchez López is Lecturer Professor at the Department of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Barcelona. She has also worked as independent researcher for the Bosch and Gimpera foundation. She graduated in 2012 in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona. She holds a Master in Science degree in Research, Development and Control of Drugs from the University of Barcelona and also an Experimental Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Elena Sánchez carried out her Ph.D. funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and innovation (FPI scholarship/contract) and she obtained her Ph.D. on 2017. During this period, she also did two stages in International Universities (University of Trás-ós-Montes e Alto Douro and University College of London) and obtained the first award from the Pharmaceutical Federation. In addition, at the end of her Ph.D. she carried out an intership in a Pharmaceutical Company. Her field of expertise is to the design, development, and characterization of new drug delivery systems. Other research interests include the controlled delivery of drugs across biological barriers, e.g. skin, gastrointestinal tract and blood-brain-barrier. Elena Sánchez is part of the Editorial board of the Matrige Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and served as a reviewer for high-impact factor journals. She is also a member of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, EVER and CIBERNED.