He headed the Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group »Supramolecular Systems« at the Department of Physics. In 2008, he received the Karl Scheel Award from the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin (Berlin Physical Society). Norbert Koch is member of the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences - IRIS Adlershof at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Research fields: Organic electronics and molecular electronics, realization of opto-electronic devices (light emitting diodes, solar cells, transistors, storage elements) with organic semiconducting materials.