Twan Lammers obtained a D.Sc. in Radiation Oncology from Heidelberg University in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from Utrecht University in 2009. In the same year, he started the Nanomedicine and Theranostics group at RWTH Aachen University. In 2014, he was promoted to full professor of medicine at RWTH Aachen University Clinic. His group aims to individualize and improve disease treatment by combining drug targeting with imaging. To this end, image-guided (theranostic) drug delivery systems are being developed, as well as materials and methods to monitor tumor growth, angiogenesis, inflammation, fibrosis and metastasis. He has published over 250 papers (18000 citations, h-index 74), and received multiple scholarships and awards, including a starting and consolidator grant from the European Research Council, the Young Investigator Award of the Controlled Release Society, the Adritelf International Award, and the Belgian Society for Pharmaceutical Science International Award. He is on the editorial board of 10 journals, and serves as a handling editor for the Journal of Controlled Release, Drug Delivery and Translational Research, and Molecular Imaging and Biology. Since 2019, he is included in the Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers.