Anke Weidenkaff

Anke Weidenkaff is W3-professor for Sustainable Materials Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Her research focuses on materials science and resource strategies, including sustainable materials for energy conversion and storage, regenerative circular materials and next-generation green process technologies.

From 2013–2018, she was chair holder of Materials Chemistry and director of the Institute for Materials Science at the University of Stuttgart. From 2018–2024, she was executive director of the Fraunhofer IWKS and professor at TU Darmstadt.

She is an elected board member of the E-MRS Scientific Council, the International Society of Solid State Ionics, and Materials Valley e.V. She served as president of the European Thermoelectric Society from 2016–2019 and was a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) from 2020–2024.

Anke Weidenkaff is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech.