Dr. Amrit Paudel is an associate professor at Graz University of technology and scientific leader of formulation drug delivery at Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE), Graz, Austria.  Amrit worked for some years in the discovery pharmaceutics team of Bristol-Myers Squibb. He completed his Ph.D. in 2013 in the drug delivery and disposition group at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the recipient of the Young Investigator Award of 2014, issued by the APGI. Dr. Paudel has a broad interest in the physical chemistry of formulations, drug delivery, and pharmaceutical material engineering. His current work involves predictive knowledge/model development for the stability of pharmaceutical products. In addition, particle design and engineering of oral as well as pulmonary drug delivery, are of his key interests.