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Katharina Stapelmann

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Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering

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College of Engineering

Bio

Katharina Stapelmann is an associate professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, where she continued as PostDoc and assistant professor of electrical engineering before joining NC State in 2017. Stapelmann’s research interests are focused on cold atmospheric pressure plasmas for life science applications, e.g., medicine (plasma-assisted wound healing, cancer treatment, infectious diseases) and plasma agriculture (nitrogen fixation, decontamination, PFAS remediation). She is leading one of the first NIH R01 projects for plasma-assisted wound healing. Stapelmann received the Early Career Award in Plasma Medicine in 2022 and the 2021-22 Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award.

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