Viktoria Planz studied Applied Life Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern and obtained her master degree in 2012. For her PhD, she started her work at Saarland University and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (Department of Drug Delivery) in Saarbrücken and continued at the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences and Goethe University Frankfurt, where she received a doctor of natural sciences in pharmacy. Since then, she is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology of the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her main research focus relies on the development of predictive human-based in vitro models of the human skin in healthy and diseased state and electrospinning as technology platform for the development of innovative drug delivery systems for infectious wound therapy.