German Patent Attorney Of Counsel Dr. Nathalie Kunkel
Dr. Nathalie Kunkel
Memberships
Technical Focus
Inorganic functional materials, oxide ceramics, hydrogen storage, alloys, ion conduction, materials for optical applications, optical properties of rare earths, laser materials, materials for quantum information technologies, polymers, fuel cells, membranes, coating technology, corrosion protection, renewable energies
Career of Dr. Nathalie Kunkel
Since 2025 in-house patent attorney,
Since 2023 patent counsel at a well-known automotive supplier
2024 Training at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the German Federal Patent Court
2021-2023 Patent attorney training at a Mannheim patent law firm
2021 Habilitation in Inorganic Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich
2019-2021 Head of the Junior Research Group for Sustainable Inorganic Chemistry, University of Göttingen
2016-2018 Head of the Junior Research Group for Optical and Energy Materials, Technical University of Munich
2019-2022 Visiting scientist at the Technical University of Munich
2014-2016; Dr. Philippe Goldner Postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Recherche de Chimie in Paris, Photonics and Opto-Electronics, Crystals and Quantum State Dynamics Team
2014; with Prof. Dr. Holger Kohlmann Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leipzig, Inorganic Functional Materials
Summa cum laude; 2010-2014; with Prof. Dr. Holger Kohlmann Doctorate in the field of inorganic functional materials at Saarland University
2006-2010; with distinction Studies in Chemistry (Dipl.-Chem.) with focus on Chemistry for Materials Science at Saarland University
Awards and Scholarships
2016 Liebig Fellowship of the German Chemical Industry Association
2016 TU Munich University Foundation Scholarship
2015 Research Fellowship of the German Research Foundation
2015 Doctoral Award of the Wilhelm Klemm Foundation of the University Society Münster
2015 Dr. Eduard Martin Doctoral Award, Saarland University
2014 Doctoral Award of the Elisabeth and Prof. Dr. Horst-Dietrich Hardt Foundation
2011 Doctoral Scholarship of the Saarland State Graduate Funding
