Main Focus
Present:
Past:
- Low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (4K-STM)
- STM-induced luminescence on organic molecules and local exciton spectroscopy
- Fast STM-controlled processes monitored through light
emission
Past:
- sum-frequency spectroscopy in vacuum and in the electrochemical cell
- magnetism of ultrathin alloys
- design of an infrared-visible sum-frequency imaging microscope
- vibrational energy transfer at surfaces
- elastic and inelastic thermal Helium beam scattering
- surface reconstructions and interaction with adsorbates
Curriculum Vitae
1981 – 1987 Study of Physics at the
University Bonn, Germany
1987 Diploma thesis in Physics
Development of an ionization detector for a He nozzle beam
1988 – 1990 PhD at the University Bonn, PhD-supervisor Prof. Dr. G.Comsa
Structure and dynamics of the Pt(100) surface
investigated by high-resolution He scattering
1991 Scientific assistant at the Institut für Grenzflächenforschung und
Vakuumphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
1991 – 1992 Feodor-Lynen Fellowship: Post-doc research in the group of
Dr.A.Harris at the Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
1992 – 2000 Scientist & group leader in the Institut de Physique Expérimental,
EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
since 2000 Scientist & group leader in the
Nanoscale Science Department (Prof. Dr. K.Kern) at the
Max-Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart
1987 Diploma thesis in Physics
Development of an ionization detector for a He nozzle beam
1988 – 1990 PhD at the University Bonn, PhD-supervisor Prof. Dr. G.Comsa
Structure and dynamics of the Pt(100) surface
investigated by high-resolution He scattering
1991 Scientific assistant at the Institut für Grenzflächenforschung und
Vakuumphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
1991 – 1992 Feodor-Lynen Fellowship: Post-doc research in the group of
Dr.A.Harris at the Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
1992 – 2000 Scientist & group leader in the Institut de Physique Expérimental,
EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
since 2000 Scientist & group leader in the
Nanoscale Science Department (Prof. Dr. K.Kern) at the
Max-Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart