title: Gabriele Sadowski
text: # Gabriele Sadowski
  
  Gabriele Sadowski (born 18 February 1964) is a German chemist.
  
  ## Early life and education
  
  Sadowski studied Chemistry at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg from 1982 to 1987. She finished her doctorate in 1991 at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg. She completed her dissertation at the Technical University of Berlin in 2000.
  
  ## Career and research
  
  Her research focuses on Polymer Thermodynamics, Thermodynamics of Pharmaceutical Systems, and Reaction Thermodynamics. Since 2001, she is full professor at the Technical University of Dortmund. She took over the responsibility of prorector research in 2016.
  
  ## Awards and honours
  
  She was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2011 and she is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
  
  