Prof. Dr. Ulrike Kramm

Since 2020, Ulrike Kramm is full professor (W3) on Catalysts and Electrocatalysts in the Department of Chemistry at TU Darmstadt. She joined TU Darmstadt in 2015 when she received a bridging professorship (W1) between the Department of Chemistry and Institute of Materials Science within the Frame of the Graduate School of Excellence Energy Science and Engineering. She is member of the department und university councils.

She is leading the Collaborative Research Center 1487 “Iron, upgraded!”, a consortium of currently 75 researchers mainly located at TU Darmstadt, but also at the MPI CEC in Mülheim, and the Universities of Mainz, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Munich and Marburg. Beside this, she leads the H₂ Exchange Cluster of TU Darmstadt that aims at connecting the scientists with local industry partners working in the same area.  She is elected member of the scientific advisory board of the Helmholtz-Center Berlin (since 2023) and of the DECHEMA working group in Applied Inorganic Chemistry (since 2020).

She is part of the advisory or editorial boards for the journals “Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research”, “ Journal of Materials Chemistry A” and “Catalysis Communications”, as well as in different selection committees for TU Darmstadt internal awards and the EuChemS Lecture award.

Since 2020, she is member of the selection committee for the Hessischer Staatspreis Energie (Hesse state award in energy). The committee consists of nine experts from politics and applied sciences to award start-ups and related ideas in five different categories.

She received several awards among them the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz award (most prestigious early career award in Germany), a young researcher group and the Curious Mind Award in Energy and Mobility (provided by MERCK and the manager magazine).