Since 2018
Research assistant in the Chemistry Department at the Deutsches Museum, Munich

2017
Research assistant in the Department of Nano- and Biosciences at the Deutsches Museum, Munich

2012 – 2019
External museum guide at the Deutsches Museum, Munich

Since 2012
Lecturer for the Women's Computer School Munich (FCS-AG)

Since 2008
Lecturer and author for the medical revision programme Medi-Learn, Marburg

Since 2008
Freelance private teacher and lecturer for chemistry, computers and creative subjects ("lernen mit Ilka Schmitt")

Doctorate in Theoretical Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum

Studied chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum, graduated with a diploma

• Supervision of the "Chemistry visitors' lab" at the Deutsches Museum
• Permanent exhibition "Chemistry", Deutsches Museum (opening 2022)
• Permanent exhibition on nanosciences and biosciences

• I. Schmitt: „Physik – Physik für Vorklinik und Physikum“ (Teil 1 des Mathematik-Physik-Paketes der Medi-Learn Skriptenreihe, 6. Auflage, Medi-Learn-Verlag, Ottendorf, 2014)
• I. Schmitt: „Kupferatome in Wechselwirkung mit polaren Zinkoxidoberflächen: Eine quantenmechanische Studie“ (Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2011)
• I. Schmitt, K. Fink und V. Staemmler: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 11196, 2009
• I. Hegemann, A. Schwaebe und K. Fink: J. Comput. Chem. 29, 2302, 2008
• O. Asvany, P. Kumar P, B. Redlich, I. Hegemann, S. Schlemmer, D. Marx: Science 309, 1219, 2005
• I. Hegemann: „CH5+ und sein IR-Spektrum – Eine molekulardynamische Studie“ (Diplomarbeit, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2001)