Alumna Dr. Montaha Anjass earns Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation scholarship

Dr. Montaha Anjass, Birzeit University alumna and research group leader at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm, Germany, was awarded a scholarship by the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation.

By providing the financial grant to pay for assistance in household chores and full childcare, the foundation supports distinguished female scientists with children in the field of experimental natural sciences.

As for her research focus, Dr. Anjass studies the development of novel nanostructured materials and their use in application areas of global socio-economic relevance such as energy conversion/storage or catalysis.

After completing her bachelor’s degree at Birzeit University and subsequently working as a teaching assistant, Dr. Anjass joined the advanced materials master’s program at Ulm University, Germany, in 2013 and later received her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry and electrochemistry from the same university in 2019.

In 2017, Dr. Anjass was awarded Ulm University’s Mileva Einstein-Marić Prize for her groundbreaking Ph.D. research in battery technology. She also received the Margarete von Wrangell fellowship, which provides excellent female researchers with the means to pursue five-year post-doctoral research.