Stefanie Reese is Rector of the University of Siegen, Germany. Full Professor at RWTH Aachen University and affiliated with the Institute of Applied Mechanics (IFAM) in Aachen, Germany, which she established in 2010.
In 2021 she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering which is a part-time position. After receiving her Dr.-Ing. degree in 1994 from the Technische Universität Darmstadt and postdoc stays at the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and the University of Capetown (South Africa) she became in the year 2000 Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 2005 until 2009 she was Full Professor (W3) at the Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina at Braunschweig.
Her work is in the area of computational mechanics. The focus is on continuum mechanical and data-driven modeling of materials, model reduction as well as finite element technology. She obtained several prizes for her scientific work and was appointed to be member of three academies, among these the National Academy of Science and Enginering (acatech). In 2011, she was elected as one of the 25 most influential female engineers in Germany.
