Prof. Dr. Martina Zimmermann is a Full Professor of Mechanics of Materials and Failure Analysis at the Institute of Materials Science, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. She is also Head of the Materials Characterization competence field at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology Dresden. Prof. Zimmermann obtained a PhD in 2001 from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Welding Design and Mechanical Behavior, University of Siegen, Germany. In 2021, she became the first female president (dual leadership) of the German Materials Society (DGM) and has been a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering since November 2021. She specializes in the mechanical behavior of materials and structure-property correlation, with research interests in fatigue behavior, damage mechanisms, failure analysis, and material-process interaction.