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Britta Nestler (born 1972) is a German materials scientist at the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...
. Her research involves the development of software to simulate the formation of microstructures in advanced materials for which experimental studies would be too expensive or difficult. Nestler did her undergraduate and graduate studies in mathematics and physics at
RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...
. She joined the
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. I ...
in 2001 and moved to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2009. In 2017 the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft The German Research Foundation (german: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germ ...
gave her their
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...
"for her significant, internationally recognised research in computer-assisted materials research and the development of new material models with multiscale and multiphysical approaches".


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nestler, Britta 1972 births Living people German materials scientists Women materials scientists and engineers RWTH Aachen University alumni Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany