Doris Wedlich, a biologist from University of Münster with a doctorate in zoology, is Head of Division I ‘Biology, Chemistry, and Process Engineering’ at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where she is responsible for twenty KIT institutes, the KIT Department of Chemistry and Biosciences and the KIT Department of Chemical and Process Engineering as well as the Helmholtz Programme BioInterfaces. From 2001 to 2012, she was Professor in the Zoological Institute at KIT.