The talks in the PhD-meeting of April 2019 were held by Golbarg Esfahani and Jonas Volmer. Both gave introductional talks on their topics of “Lipidized starch for parenteral controlled drug release applications” and “Tuning Function and Processability of (Bio-)Polymeric Materials Using Aqueous Ionic Liquid Mixtures and Deep Eutectic Solvents” respectively. The meeting took place October 28th.