Karin Everschor-Sitte is a professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Her main scientific research fields are the complex fundamental physics of topological magnetic textures and spintronics-based unconventional computing. After completing her PhD at the University of Cologne in 2012, Karin Everschor-Sitte worked as a postdoc at the Technical University Munich and then received a DAAD postdoctoral fellowship to conduct research at the University of Texas at Austin. Followed by a period as a postdoc, she led an Emmy Noether group at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, from 2016 to 2021. In 2018 she was awarded the Hertha-Sponer-Prize.