Simone Techert is a leading scientist at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and full professor of ultrafast X-ray physics at Goettingen University. Simone develops ultrafast X-ray Free Electron Laser methods and time-resolved methods at high-flux X-ray synchrotron sources. She has pioneered the field of "molecular movie methods". Her fields of expertise includes Experimental Physics, Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, Soft Matter and Molecular Physics.