Ellen Ivers-Tiffée
German materials scientist
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Ellen Ivers-Tiffée (born 1951) is a German materials scientist specializing in functional ceramics, especially focusing on energy storage and energy conversion. She is a KIT Distinguished Senior Fellow and former head of the Institute for Applied Materials – Materials for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IAM-WET) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.[1]
Education and career
Ivers-Tiffée was born in 1951 in Frankfurt. She received a diploma in 1975 in mineralogy and crystallography at Marburg University, and completed her Ph.D. in 1980 at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.[1]
From 1980 until 1996 she worked in industry at the Siemens Corporate Research and Technology Center of Applied Materials Research. In 1996 she became a professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where she held the Chair for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and headed the Institute for Applied Materials – Materials for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IAM-WET). Since 2019 she has been a KIT Distinguished Senior Fellow.[1]
Recognition
Ivers-Tiffée was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005,[2] and to acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering, in 2007.[1][3] She became a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2015.[4]