Ute Deichmann received her Ph.D. in 1991 at the Department of Genetics of the University of Cologne with the thesis Biologists under Hitler: The Expulsion of Jewish Scientists and the Development of Biological Research in Germany.
[4] She received her habilitation in 2000 at the same university with a thesis on chemists and biochemists in the era of National Socialism, published in 2001.
[6] From 2003 to 2007, she was a research professor at the Leo-Baeck-Institute in London where, together with Ulrich Charpa, she was the head of the project "Jews in German-Speaking Academia, 19th and 20th centuries".
[7] In 2007, Deichmann became founding director of the Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva.
In 2011, she was the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award from the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society for her article “‘Molecular’ versus ‘Colloidal’: Controversies in Biology and Biochemistry, 1900-1940”.