Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus

Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus (born 18 September 1951) is a German chemist.

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.

Her research focuses oncombustion diagnostics using laser spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, the deposition of functional materials from the gas-phase, and the in-situ analysis of reactive systems.

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