Prof. Dr. Annika Thiel is a professor at the University of Bonn, Germany, with a focus on the field of baryon and light meson spectroscopy. She is currently on leave to focus on her research at the University of Glasgow, where she works at the GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab, Newport News, USA.

Annika Thiel studied physics at the University of Bonn, Germany, and finished her diploma thesis in 2006. She continued her work in the field of baryon spectroscopy and received her PhD in 2012. Her focus lied in the extraction of polarization observables, measured with the CBELSA/TAPS experiment in Bonn. The thesis was awarded with the PhD prize for the best physics dissertation at the university in 2013. After her thesis, she additionally worked on the OLYMPUS experiment at DESY, Hamburg, Germany, the A2 experiment in Mainz, Germany, and the COMPASS experiment at CERN, Switzerland.

In 2016, she was promoted to a (junior) professor at the Universitaet Bonn. In 2018, Annika Thiel received a grant for a research fellowship to work at the University of Glasgow. During this fellowship, she joined the GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab, Newport News, USA, to conduct research in the field of light meson spectroscopy and the search for exotic states.