Since May 2022
President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the national metrology institute of Germany
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Muenster (UoM)

January 2022–April 2022
Secondment to PTB

2016–2022
Chair of Experimental Physics & Gender Studies in Physics, UoM

2013–2016
Chair of Experimental Physics, UoM

2012
Founding Director of the hands-on pupil’s lab MExLab ExperiMINTe, the overarching institution of the laboratories for pupils of UoM

2010–2016
Vice-Rector for International Affairs and Young Researchers, UoM

2006–2011
Chair of the Board of the Center for Nonlinear Science, UoM

2006–2022
Head of the hands-on pupil’s lab MExLab for physics, UoM

2006–2022
Director, Institute of Applied Physics, UoM

2003–2013
Professor (C4), Institute of Applied Physics, UoM

2001–2003
Professor (C3), Institute of Applied Physics, UoM

2000–2001
Professor (C2), Department of Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology (DUT)

1992–2000
Research Associate (C1), Department of Physics, DUT

1991–1992
Research Associate, Institut d’Optique, Orsay, Francee

1988–1991 Research Associate, Institute for Applied Physics, DUT

December 1999
Tenure in experimental physics, Department of Physics, DUT

June 1993 – August 1994
Various teaching assignments at Darmstadt University of Technology (DUT) and Phillips-Universität Marburg

April 1988 – June 1992
Doctoral degree, Department of Physics, DUT

October 1982 – March 1988
Physics studies, DUT

since 2014
Member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts

2012
“Professor of the Year” award from Unicum magazine

2010
“Landmark in the Land of Ideas”, MExLab Physik, German Federal Government

since 2007/09
Fellow of the European Optical Society and Fellow of the Optical Society of America

2003
Recipient of the “Gender Equality Prize” of the University of Muenster (UoM)

1999
Recipient of the Adolf Messer Foundation’s prize

1993
Recipient of the Lise Meitner Prize of the State Government of Hesse

• Chair of the Board of the Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation
• Chair of the Board of the Helmholtz Fund e.V.
• Advisory Board of the BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing)
• Presidial Board of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN)
• Supervisory Board of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)
• Supervisory Board of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR)
• Board of Trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation
• Supervisory Board of the GSI Helmholtz-Zentrum für Schwerionenforschung (Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research)
• Scientific Advisory Council of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena
• Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
• Advisory Board of the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB)
• Technology Board of the Quantum Technologies Initiative of the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Advisory Board of the Deutsches Museum (Munich)

Nonlinear photonics
Structured light, soft and hard laser lithography, nonlinear optics, information optics, biophotonics and biophysics, micro and optofluidics, optical pattern formation and complex optical systems

Gender studies in physics
Gender equity, gender equality and gender research

Research on transfer and hands-on learning
Hands-on exhibitions and pupils’ labs, career orientation, promoting girls in STEM, promoting talents, physics for refugees

Learning through research
Learning through research in master’s degree studies, experimental education, mini research, assessment procedures for student teachers and pupils

Interactive and participatory learning
University student participation in lectures, student response systems, evaluation of teaching

Cornelia Denz has authored more than 300 international peer-reviewed publications within the physics research fields listed above. Her h-index score is 40 (ISI WoS) or 48 (Google Scholar). She is the author of four books and 24 book chapters. She holds four patents and has published 11 special issues of scientific journals. A complete list of her publications can be found here: www.nichtlineare-photonik.de