Brigitte Voit (born 1963 in Bayreuth) is a German chemist and professor of chemistry. She holds the chair Organic Chemistry of Polymers at the Faculty of Chemistry of the TU Dresden and is Director of the Division Macromolecular Chemistry at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF Dresden) in Dresden. From September 1, 2002, to July 31, 2022, she was also member of the Board of Management/CSO of the IPF Dresden.
Voit studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth (1982âÂÂ1987) 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 2016, she is elected member of acatech (Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften e.V.). In 2017 she was honored by the "Sächsischer Verdienstorden" (Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony). Further Awards (selection): Hermann Staudinger Award of the GDCh (2018); PTN Medema Lecture Award (2020); Solomon Lecture Series Award, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Polymer Division (2023).
Brigitte Voit research field comprises different areas of polymer related science, with a recent focus on sustainability. She works on functional polymer architectures and responsive and bioactive polymers and hydrogels, with potential applications in organic electronics, smart systems and energy technologies, and biomedicine.
Publications of Voit can be visited at google scholar and Web of Science.