Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus
German Chemist
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Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus (born 18 September 1951) is a German chemist.
Life
Kohse-Höinghaus studied Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1970-1975. She finished her doctorate at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1978 and her habilitation at the University of Stuttgart in 1992. Since 1994, she is a professor for physical chemistry at the Bielefeld University. She founded one of the first hands-on laboratories for schools.
Research
Her research focuses on combustion diagnostics using laser spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, the deposition of functional materials from the gas-phase, and the in-situ analysis of reactive systems.
Awards and Memberships
She received the following awards and memberships:
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007
- Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2008
- Member of the German Council of Science and Humanities since 2012
- Member of the acatech since 2015
- Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2016
- Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts since 2017
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2017
- Walther Nernst Memorial Medal by the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie in 2020