Catherine Stampfl is a professor of physics at the University of Sydney and was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019.
[3] She then moved to the United States where she worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Germany.
Catherine Stampfl works in interdisciplinary research across physics, engineering, chemistry and materials science.
[5][6] Stampfl works to predict new catalysts and new materials including those that could convert carbon dioxide into other fuels, as well as researching chemical reactions at surfaces.
[7] Her work involves high-performance computing and first-principles calculations to develop an understanding of how matter behaves.