Professor Dr. Katharina Marquardt

Biography

Katharina Marquardt joined the University of Oxford in September 2023 as an Associate Professor in Materials. She is currently a Visiting Reader at Imperial College London. Prior to her current position, she served as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at Imperial College London from 2018. Marquardt's academic journey began at the University of Bayreuth as an Akademische Rätin and she completed her Habilitation in 2019 in the field of 'Experimental Geology' at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut (BGI), Bayreuth. Her research includes stints at Carnegie Mellon University in the Materials Science department and held a postdoctoral position with a Helmholtz Fellowship at GFZ Potsdam in Germany. She earned her PhD in Mineral Physics from the Technical University of Berlin in 2010. Marquardt's current research interests focus on interfaces in materials, particularly the evolution of microstructures under changing conditions. She employs advanced electron microscopy techniques to understand grain boundary networks and aims to develop new materials and characterization protocols, contributing to energy transition solutions.

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