Marcel Utz is Otto Lehmann Professor of Microsystems and head of Division III – Electrical and Information Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

After a postdoc in Chemical Engineering at Princeton University, he joined the Faculty of the Department of Physics and the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Connecticut as an assistant professor. In 2006, he moved to the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia, and in 2012, he joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton in the UK, where he was promoted to a personal chair in 2014. He held the position of head of the section of magnetic resonance until he was called to KIT as Otto Lehmann Professor of Microsystems in 2023. Since then, he has built up the department of microsystems within the Institute of Microstructure Technology at KIT, with a special focus on magnetic resonance spectroscopy at small scales, with applications in biology and materials science. Effective October 2025, he was appointed as Head of Division III, one of five divisions of KIT. In this capacity, he is responsible for the strategic development and operation of the two faculties of electrical and information engineering and mechanical engineering, thirty four institutes, and the Helmholtz research field „Energy“.

Prof. Utz is the author of more than 100 scientific publications, as well as several patents and book chapters. Over his career, he has received a range of honours and awards, including the medal of ETH, a Career award of the US National Science Foundation, and a Marie Curie Carceer integration award by the European Commission. He was elected an International Excellence Fellow of KIT, and was appointed an Otto Lehmann Professor at KIT in 2023.