Prof. Dr. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser has received her Ph.D. in 1996 in cell biology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). She worked as postdoc and group leader at ETHZ and University of Bern, Switzerland. She is an expert in the field of cell-nanoparticle interactions, with a special focus on human 3D tissue models. Since 2011 she is the chair in BioNanomaterials at the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI), University of Fribourg, Switzerland, the position is shared equally with Prof. Alke Fink. Prof. RothenRutishauser has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and is associate editor of “Particle and Fibre Toxicology”. She is the recipient for the 2019 Materials Today Agents of Change Award with Dr. S. Martin Caba and Prof. A. Fink from the University of Fribourg.