Dr. Ulrike Kraft
Short Bio
Ulrike Kraft is head of the Independent Organic Bioelectronics Research Group within the Lise Meitner Excellence Program (centrally funded, selected in the competitive call 2021) and member of the Junior Faculty of the Max Planck Graduate School with the JGU Mainz.
Scientific career
In her postdoctoral research at the Stanford University, USA (Electrical- and Chemical Engineering departments), which was funded by a Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, she studied and developed intrinsically stretchable electronic materials, devices and circuits for wearable applications such as on-skin sensors for health monitoring.
She then continued her research on organic electronic devices iat the University of Cambridge, UK (Cavendish Laboratory, Physics department) investigating the operational and environmental stability of polymer transistors for flexible display applications.
In 2020 Dr. Ulrike Kraft joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as a group leader with a Minerva Fast Track fellowship from the Max Planck Society and also became a fellow of the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society.
Academic education
Ulrike obtained a diploma in Applied Natural Sciences and a PhD degree in Chemistry from the Technical University of Freiberg. In her PhD work in the Organic Electronics Research Group of Hagen Klauk at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, she studied low-voltage, organic thin-film transistors and circuits on plastic and paper substrates for applications in portable and bendable displays. Another key aspect of her dissertation was the organic synthesis of multifunctional organic electronic materials. For this purpose, she visited the group of John E. Anthony (University of Lexington, KY; USA) for several months.
Selected awards, fellowships, services
2025 Editor for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
2025 Symposium Organizer for the MRS Fall Meeting 2025
2025 Co-leader of the MPGC focus group “Materials Science at Interfaces”
2024 OP-FONAS; Joint Research Program between NRF (South Korea) und DFG
2024 “Emerging Investigator” in J. Mater Chem C
2024 Symposium Organizer for the MRS Spring Meeting 2024 and MRS Fall Meeting 2025
2023 “Emerging Leader” in J. Phys. Mater.
2023 Junior Faculty Member of the Max Planck Graduate Center (MPGC)
co-representative of the Junior Faculty of the MPGC
2022 Lise Meitner Research Group
2021 Grant from the VW foundation “Corona Crisis and Beyond – Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society“
2020 Fellow of the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society
2019 Minerva Fast Track Fellowship
Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
Presentations
In total > 30 invited talks and > 50 oral presentations
invited presentations (selection):
2026 invited to SPIE Optics and Photonics in August, San Diego, USA
2026 invited to the University of Göttingen (April), Condensed Matter Seminar
2026 Flexible Electronics, Symposium, Mainz, Germany
2025 TCM-TOEO (Intern. Symp. on Transparent Conductive Mater.) Crete, Greece
2025 Beilstein Symposium: Organic Semic. Materials: Challenges and Opportunities, Frankfurt
2025 ICOE (Int. Conf. on Organic Electronics), Coimbra, Portugal
2025 Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
2025 GCIM (Global Conference of Innovation Materials), Jeju, South Korea
2024 ICFPE; Taipei; Taiwan
2024 Symposium on the occasion of the 40-year anniversary of the MPI for Polymer Research
2024 ICSM (Int. Conf. on Science and Technology of Synthetic Electron. Mater.), Dresden
2024 University Kassel, GDCH Seminar
2024 3rd International Symposium on Dynamic Exciton (ISDyEx), Mainz
2023 International Meeting on Information Display (IMID), Busan, South Korea
2023 Workshop on Quantum Materials, Marburg, Germany
2023 Symposium “Bioelectronics: Interfacing & Mimicking Biological Systems”, Heidelberg,
2022 Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium, Mainz, Germany
2022 SPIE Optics and Photonics; San Diego, USA
2022 14th IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference, Qingdoa, China, virtual