Andrea Kirsch leads the Oxidic Functional Materials Group in RC FEMS and is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum since 2025. Positioned at the intersection of chemistry, physics, and materials science, her group aims to develop advanced materials for future energy applications. Her group focuses on the synthesis, discovery, and structural characterization of complex oxides, especially high-entropy materials.
Andrea received her Ph.D. in solid state chemistry from the University of Bremen in 2018. With an independent postdoctoral fellowship awarded from the DFG, she moved to the University of Copenhagen in 2019, where she stayed for five years as a postdoc. After receiving the NRW Returning Scholars Grant awarded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW), she is now establishing her own group in Bochum. “With my diverse background in biomedical engineering, solid state chemistry, and crystallography, I am excellently suited to work in such a highly interdisciplinary environment such as RC FEMS” she says. “I am especially excited about the fantastic research infrastructure and the vast opportunities for collaborations across different faculties extending over several cities of the Ruhr area”.
