Stefanie Dehnen

Stefanie Dehnen (born 31 May 1969) is a German chemist. She is the executive director of the Institute of Nanotechnology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. From 2006 to 2022, she was a full professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Marburg.

Education and professional life Dehnen studied Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe from 1988 to 1993. Since 2022, she is also Editor in Chief of the Journal Inorganic Chemistry (journal).

Personal life She is married and has 4 children.

Three of her most-cited publications are:

Awards She has been awarded the Wöhler Young Scientists Award of the Society of German Chemists in 2004 and the State of Baden-Württemberg Teaching Award in 2005. In 2018, she was awarded the Philipps-Universität Marburg Award for Support of Women in Science of the University of Marburg. As the third woman (after Margot Becke and Marianne Baudler), she was awarded the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize in 2020. Moreover, she will give the Margot Becke lecture in 2020. In 2020 Stefanie Dehnen was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Chemistry Section. In 2022, she received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and an ERC Advanced Grant for research into bismuth clusters. Since 2022, she is also a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2023, she won the RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2024 and 2025, she will be the president of the German Chemical Society.