Andrea Heinz works as an Associate Professor in at the LEO Foundation Center for Cutaneous Drug Delivery, Department of Pharmacy of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She studied Pharmacy at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, between 1999 and 2004 and received her PhD at the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 2008. She worked as a researcher at the Institute of Pharmacy of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg between 2009 and 2016, where she investigated the structure, enzymatic degradation and aging of the important extracellular matrix protein and core protein of elastic fibers, elastin. Her current research focuses on the structure of extracellular matrix proteins including elastin in skin aging and inflammatory skin diseases as well as on cutaneous drug delivery systems and their interactions with the skin.