Maria N. Antipina obtained her Ph.D. degree in biophysics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, in 2004. She moved to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany in 2005. That year, Antipina was awarded the Incoming International Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to carry out a research project on artificial viruses for gene delivery. In 2007, she joined the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR (Singapore), where she is currently leading projects on microencapsulation and delivery of biologically active ingredients for biomedical, food and consumer care applications.
