Brigitte Voit
Brigitte Voit (born 1963 in Bayreuth) is a German chemist and professor of chemistry. She is the head of the chair Organic Chemistry of Polymers at the Department of Chemistry of the TU Dresden and leader of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF Dresden) in Dresden. She also is the Scientific Director of the IPF Dresden. Academic career. Voit studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth (1982–1987) and was awarded her PhD with distinctions in 1990. During her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Arizona. After a  postdoctoral stay at the Eastman Kodak (now Kodak) research laboratories in Rochester, NY, USA, she received her habilitation from the Technical University of Munich in 1996. In 1997 she accepted a full professorship at the TU Dresden, and simultaneously the position as head of the Institute Macromolecular Chemistry at the Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF Dresden). Since 2002, she also heads the IPF Dresden as a Managing Director/Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). She is a principal investigator in two so-called Clusters of Excellence, the "Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden" (CRTD) and the "Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden