Franziska Schmidt is the head of the Materials Characterization and Development Laboratory at the Prosthodontics Department at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. She focuses on dental materials characterization, especially of ceramics, polymers and composites, and additive manufacturing of such materials. She obtained a PhD at the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, from 2008 to 2013. She was a PostDoc at the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, from 2014 to 2019. She has a PhD in materials science and a background in materials development for biomedical applications and additive manufacturing of ceramics and ceramic-polymer composites.