Marc Descamps is Professor in solid state physics at the University of Lille (France). He his head of the group “Molecular and Therapeutic Materials” in the CNRS lab UMR 8207 and leads the European INTERREG network IDEA (“Improving Drug Efficacy and Availability”). He is the author of more than 160 publications in international journals and he has collaborated with several large pharmaceutical companies. His research interests include: phase transitions in molecular materials, disordered crystals, molecular glasses and studies of the structural and dynamic properties of molecular solids by a variety of physicochemical techniques.