**Meet the editor**

Vu Dang Hoang completed his doctorate in pharmaceutics at the University of Strathclyde, UK, in 2005 and conducted a postdoctoral research at the Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Techniques des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires, France, in 2006. He has been lecturing at the Department of Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology, Hanoi University of Pharmacy, Vietnam, since 2007. He

became an associate professor in the field of drug quality control in 2015. His research interests include chemico-physical characterization of topical drug delivery systems and chemometrics-based methods for the analysis of drugs in pharmaceutical dosage forms and biological fluids. So far, he has authored more than 30 publications in pharmaceutical research and analytical chemistry in leading national and international peer-reviewed journals.
