Anna Katharina Herta Hirsch (born 1982 in Trier) is a German-Luxembourg chemist and professor of medicinal chemistry at Saarland University.

Since 2017, she has headed the Department of Drug Design and Optimization at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS).

For her master's thesis, Hirsch conducted research in the team of Steven V. Ley at the University of Cambridge.

[3] She then moved as an HFSP postdoc to the group of Jean-Marie Lehn at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) in Strasbourg.

[2] In addition to her work as department head at HIPS, she has been a professor of pharmacy at Saarland University since 2017.