- Chair: Gerhard Ecker (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)
- Supervisors: Thierry Langer (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna) and Ugo Perricone (Fondazione Ri.MED, Palermo, Italy)
- Examiners: Rocío Mercado Oropeza (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden), Laura De Luca (Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy) and Francesco Ortuso (Universita degli Studi Magna Græcia di Catanzaro, Italy)