Gisbert Schneider has been Full Professor of Computer-Assisted Drug Design at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences since 2010. He was born in Fulda, Germany, in 1965. He completed his degree in biochemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in 1991 and also studied medicine and computer science. He received a doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1994 before working as a postdoc at the Benjamin Franklin University Clinic, Berlin, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and the Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt, Germany, until 1997. He then spent five years working as a scientific specialist in industrial research at Hoffmann – La Roche Ltd. In 2000, he received the venia legendi for biochemistry and bioinformatics from the University of Freiburg, Germany. From 2002 to 2009, Gisbert Schneider worked as a full professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany (Beilstein Endowed Chair for Chem- and Bioinformatics). In 2010 he became Adjunct Professor at Goethe-University, and in 2015 he was elected Fellow of The University of Tokyo, Japan.