received her diploma in physical chemistry in 1986 and her PhD in 1993 from the University of Jena. Since 1997 she is the head of the research group Coating on Plastics at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering in Jena, Germany. She has authored a large number of papers and patents on vacuum coating on plastics and antireflection coatings, among them chapters for the books “Handbook of Plastic Optics” (ed. S. Bäumer) in 2009 and “Optical Thin Films and Coatings” (ed. A. Piegari and F. Flory) in 2013. In 2003 Ulrike Schulz received the “Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize” of the Fraunhofer Society for the development of hard antireflective coatings for plastics. For her research about plasma etching of polymers she awarded the “Research Prize” of Thuringia in 2011.