Chemical Engineering and Catalysis

Biography

Dr. Petra Bele studied physics at the Naturwissenschaftliche Technische Akademie in Isny, Germany, and later received her PhD from the University of Yamanashi, Japan. She started her scientific career at the Max-Planck-Institut for Medical Reserach in Heidelberg and is a permanent senior staff member at the Department of Physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2005. Besides her scientific research, she was, or is still involved as scientific project evaluator/coordinator/administrator for several international projects under the European Commission frameworks FP7 and HORIZON2020, as well as different national funded projects. She co-supervises postgraduate students, contributes to her research field as scientific author, book editor and serves as an active member of numerous scientific societies. In this duty, she was or still is involved in several international conference scientific advisory boards, as keynote speaker, session organizer and/or scientific conference chair. Dr. Bele is also a distinguished referee for several scientific journals and since 2007 member of the Editorial Board (as Associate Editor) for the scientific journal “ Fuel Cells – From Fundamentals to Applied Systems”.

Research Interest

With a fundamental background in Electron Spin Resonance (EPR) and Magnetically Modulated Microwave Absorption (MMMA) on organic metals and superconductors she was amongst scientists, who developed the MMMA technique. After switching her main scientific interest to a new major research field, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) on nanomaterials and biological samples, her expertise includes, besides the imaging technique, image processing and 3D-reconstruction of biological (proteins, DNA) and solid state samples (nanoparticles).