Ulla Engelmann is head of unit for Clusters, Social Economy and Entrepreneurship within DG GROW, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs.
Previously, Ulla worked at the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the in-house science service of the European Commission, for many years in different functions. She started in the JRC in Ispra (Italy) in 1993 as a post-doc in fusion research, and moved on to manage various units (communication, international relations, and others) in Ispra and Brussels. Ulla holds a PhD in analytical and radiochemistry completed at the National Research Centre in Karlsruhe.