Ulrich "Uli" Kortz is a German chemist and professor, working in the area of synthetic polyoxometalate chemistry.

Ulrich Kortz obtained his education in Chemical Engineering in the period 1982–1989 and was awarded his Diplom from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

In the period of 1989–1995 he was working on his doctorate degree at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, under close supervision of Michael T. Pope.

[4][5] They have also pioneered the chemistry of the wheel-shaped {P8W48} by preparing {Cu20P8W48}, which contains a highly symmetrical Cu20 core with copper(II) ions in three different coordination geometries,[6] and another highlight example was {Fe16P8W48}.

[7] Kortz and his team have also discovered the dilacunary heteropolytungstate {GeW10} in 2006,[8] and systematically explored its reactivity towards transition metal ions.