Dr. Katharina Stapelmann

Prof. Dr. Katharina Stapelmann is an Associate Professor with the Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University. She received her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) in 2009, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) in 2013. She studies the generation and transport of reactive species and interactions of technical plasmas with biological systems on a macromolecular level. She has 77 publications with more than 1100 citations (ResearchGate, 2 April 2024) and an h-index of 17. Her focus is on the characterization and optimization of plasma discharges used for biomedical applications and the understanding and improvement of plasma used, e.g., in medicine and agriculture. She received the Early Career Award in Plasma Medicine in 2022 and the Goodnight Early Career Innovation Award in 2021.