Katharina Stapelmann is an associate professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University. Stapelmann’s research interests lie in the experimental investigation of generation and transport of reactive species for life science applications, e.g. plasma medicine and plasma agriculture. Stapelmann is Mercator Fellow (DFG), member of the board of trustees of the German national center of plasma medicine, and serves as editor-in-chief for the Journal Plasma Processes and Polymers. In 2022, she was awarded the Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award and the Early Career Award in Plasma Medicine.