Dr. Foelke Purr

Foelke Purr is a research scientist and transatlantic project coordinator at Fraunhofer USA, Center Midwest, with a special focus on surface engineering for energy storage systems. Foelke joined in 2023 from Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films (Braunschweig, Germany), where she was working on electrochemical modelling as well as on lab-scale electrode/ separator coating processes for all-solid-state batteries.

After studying chemical and biological engineering in Braunschweig, Germany and Budapest, Hungary, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Microtechnology (TU Braunschweig, Germany) and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany). In June 2021, she received her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Braunschweig in mechanical engineering on the development of an optofluidic microsystem for biosensing.