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Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem is a Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide and Deputy Director of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing and Director of the optical fabrication at the Australian National Fabrication Facility. Her research is in glass sciences and optics.

Early life and education
Ebendorff-Heidepriem received a PhD in chemistry at the University of Jena in 2000. Her thesis studied the chemical and optical properties of phosphate glasses, which can be doped with rare-earth or transition metal ions to make high-power glass lasers.

Research and career
She continued her research into optical glasses at the University of Jena as a postdoctoral fellow until 2002, when she joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton.

Ebendorff-Heidepriem has been at the University of Adelaide in 2005, where she is now Professor in Physics and Deputy Director of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS).

Her research group develops mid-IR high nonlinear active and nanocomposite glasses, techniques to make optical fibres, and surface functioanlisation of glass. and integrating sensors into glass fibres.

Awards and honours

 * Winnovation SA Technology Award, SA Women in Innovation and Technology, 2017
 * University of Adelaide Women's Reserach Excellence Mid-Career Award, 2015
 * International Zwick Science Award, 2009
 * Woldemar A Weyl International Glass Science Award, 2001

Publications
Ebendorff-Heidepriem has co-authored more than 370 articles in peer-reviewed journals.