Prof. Dr. Isabelle Staude studied physics at the University of Konstanz and subsequently received her Ph.D. degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany in 2011. For her postdoc, she moved to the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She returned to Germany in mid-2015 to establish a junior research grou on functional photonic nanostructures at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. In fall 2017, she became a junior professor at the same institution. She was promoted to full professor in spring 2020. She received an Emmy-Noether Grant from the German research Foundation as well as the Hertha Sponer Prize 2017 from the German Physical Society. Isabelle Staude is an alumna of the German Young Academy (Junge Akademie) and a Fellow of the Max Planck School of Photonics.
