Katharina Marquardt joined the University of Oxford in September 2023 as Associate Professor of Materials. She currently is a visiting Reader at Imperial College London. Before this, she was a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Imperial College London, where she joined in 2018 as a Lecturer. Before joining Imperial, she was an Akademische Rätin at the University of Bayreuth (2013-2018) where she did her Habilitation (2019) in the field of “Experimental Geology“ at Bayerisches Geoinstitut, BGI, Bayreuth on “nanoscale properties of materials”. Between 2014 –2016 she visited the materials science department at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA for several research stays. From 2010 –2013 she was a postdoctoral research fellow and held a Helmholtz Fellowship at the GFZ Potsdam, Germany. During her PhD at Technical Universität Berlin, Germany. She had a prolonged research stay at the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM), Berkeley, USA.
She obtained her PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in 2010 in Mineral Physics, from the Technical Universität Berlin (FU Berlin). She also holds a Diploma (MSc) in “Petrology & Mineralogy” from Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, where she worked on nm-scale corrosion and hydration of minerals.
