One of a kind, Professor Dr. Katharina Al-Shamery is an academician, intellectually savvy, and witty. She was the chair for Physical Chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. Her distinctive scholarship in the field of Nano Science and (Photo)Catalysis for Chemical Energy Storage since 1999 is extraordinary. She studied chemistry in Göttingen, Germany and Paris, France, did a PhD at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and had Postdoctoral positions at the University of Oxford, Great Britain, the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany and the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck society in Berlin, Germany as well as an assistant professorship at the University of Ulm, Germany.

Al-Shamery is an honorary Professor on Functionalized Interfaces and Nano Structure materials at the Faculty of Engineering of the Syddansk University Odense, Denmark, and was a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies of Harvard University, USA in 2008 and 2016.

Her outstanding research work has been honored with awards, such as the Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen society of Physical Chemistry (1997), the Order of Merit of the State of Germany (2011). and the Medal of Honor of the President of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (2015).

In 2013, she was an Elected Member of the National Academy of Science Leopoldina. She is an active member in many Boards of Universities and Non-University Science Institutions; International grant selection and advisory boards. At her Esteemed University she acted as Vice President of Research and Technology transfer (2010-2014) and in 2014-2015 as Acting President of the University. Additionally, our star achiever is the Vice President of the German Chemical Society. Her special interests are to foster careers of women in chemistry which she actively pursues in various panels.