Claudia is Chair Professor of Physical Chemistry of Nanomaterials at Kassel. Claudia is a chemist by training and has received her Ph.D with honors in 2011 from the University of Erlangen, Germany working under the supervision of Andreas Hirsch. After some time as deputy executive director in the Erlangen Cluster of Excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials” Claudia received a fellowship grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2012 and moved to Jonathan Coleman’s group at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. In 2015, she returned to Germany and started her independent research at the Chair of Applied Physical Chemistry at Heidelberg University funded through the prestigious Emmy Noether funding from the German Research Foundation from 2016. In 10/2021, she was appointed to her current position. Claudia’s research interests are in liquid exfoliation, nanosheet size control and size-dependent properties, chemical modification and production of composites and hybrid structures.