Karl Mandel has been a professor for inorganic chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany since 2020, and is affiliated with the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg, Germany since 2014. His research interest is in creating supraparticles—mostly via spray-drying— to find new and unexpected properties and employing them as smart objects to contribute to sustainability. To date, he has published about 120 papers.