Katharina Kolb is an art historian and has supported the DFK Paris research team since 2013.
After studying art history and Roman languages and literature in Stuttgart, Berlin, and Paris, she earned a Magister Artium (Les livres ichtyologiques à l'époque de la Renaissance) at Sorbonne University (UFR histoire de l'art et l'archéologie, Sorbonne Université/Lettres) and her diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) with a thesis on The Dolphin in Renaissance Art at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE). She received her doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) on the subject of Science Communication and Mediation in Art History.

From 2010 to 2015, she managed the Titze Collection (6,000 works: paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and videos). Her responsibilities included overseeing exhibitions, drawing up loan agreements, and preparing condition reports. Budget management and personnel management were also part of her duties.
In 2010 she founded art-e-kom and since then she supports contemporary artists and institutions in the field of communication.
From 2016 to 2023, she was responsible for all public relations and science communication and created all communication media (print and digital) in collaboration with the Director of the institute and the Research Directors.

Since 2023, she works in the Research Funding Opportunities department. She continues to design and to coordinate the print media for the DFK Paris communication.