Katharina Erhardt holds a professorship in economics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and DICE as well as at the Kiel Institut where she is leading the Industrial Policy Lab. She is also a research affiliate at CESifo and serves on the managing board of the European Trade Study Group. Moreover, she is a founding member and chairwoman of the Women Economists' Network at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. She serves on the editorial board of International Economics and the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. She holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT from 2019-2021. Her research lies at the intersection of international trade and economic geography. She analyzes how global economic integration affects firms and industries, with a particular focus on the role of trade and industrial policies in shaping patterns of production, specialization, and the integration of firms into international production networks. Furthermore, her work examines the distributional consequences of globalization for firms, regions, and labor markets.