Maria Chountoulesi is a PhD Student at the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Section of Pharmaceutical Technology, Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her research interests in pharmaceutical nanotechnology include the design and development of drug delivery nanosystems; preparation of lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles liposomes and mixed/chimeric nanosystems, and drug loading and release studies.