Dr. Ute Resch-Genger is head of division Biophotonics at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). She received her Ph.D. with Prof. A. Henglein and Prof. H. Weller on the phophysics of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots, followed by a postdoc with Prof. M. A. Fox on the photophysics of cadmium thiolate clusters and porphyrin-RuO₂ nanocomposites. Her current research interests include photophysics of molecular and nanocrystalline UV/vis/NIR/SWIR emitters, stimuli-responsive optical probes, signal enhancement, multiplexing, and barcoding strategies, and methods for surface analysis of nanomaterials. As a senior scientist at a designated national metrological institute, she is also responsible for concepts for validating optical-spectroscopic measurements and developing optical reference materials (fluorescence standards) and nanoscale reference materials.

Ute Resch-Genger is vice chair of the steering committee of the Methods and Applications in Fluorescence (MAF) conference series and serves as one of the German experts in ISO/TC229 (PWI/NWIP on surface analysis of nanomaterials) and IEC/TC113 (luminescent nanomaterials).