DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Director: Martin Wolf
Emeritus: Gerhard Ertl
Research Groups
Atomic-Scale Microscopy & Spectroscopy
Akitoshi Shiotari
Dynamics of Correlated Materials
Laurenz Rettig
Lattice Dynamics
Alex Paarmann
Nonlinear Chemical Imaging
Alexander Fellows
Nonlinear Interfacial Spectroscopy
Martin Thämer
Max Planck Fellow
Structural & Electronic Surface Dynamics
Ralph Ernstorfer (also at TU-Berlin)
Support Group
Technicians Group
Marcel Krenz
ERC groups
Ultrafast Scanning Probe Microscopy
Melanie Müller
Emmy Noether Groups
THz Structural Dynamics
Sebastian Maehrlein
Associated Groups
Liquid-Vapor Interfaces (FHI AC)
Hendrik Bluhm
Nanoscale Surface Chemistry (IMS)
Takashi Kumagai (former website)
Terahertz Physics (FU Berlin)
Tobias Kampfrath (former website)
Electron Dynamiχ (HU Berlin)
A. Julia Stähler
... further Former Groups
Events & Seminars
Mon., 12 May. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Edoardo Baldini
(University of Texas at Austin)
Title - tba
Mon., 12 May. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Title - tba
Edoardo Baldini 
(University of Texas at Austin)
Thu., 12 Jun. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Yuzu Kobayashi
(RIKEN, Japan)
Special Seminar - tba
Thu., 12 Jun. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Special Seminar - tba
Yuzu Kobayashi 
(RIKEN, Japan)
News
  • Niclas S. Müller receives the Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award
    honoring his work on "Imaging Infrared Materials Excitations with SFG-Microscopy"
  •
    Electro-optic Cavities for In-situ Measurement of Cavity Fields
    Electro-optic cavities promise an inside view of light-matter interactions
  •
    Sum-frequency Imaging of Polaritonic Metasurfaces
    Combining microscopy with spectroscopy
  •
    Dr. Melanie Müller receives ERC Starting Grant
    Her project FASTOMIC elucidates nonequilibrium dynamics in space and time with ultrafast STM
  •
    Atomic-Precision Photoreaction Control of Molecule–Silicon Interface
    Utilization of plasmon for single-molecule switch
  •
    Sebastian F. Mährlein becomes Professor at TU Dresden and Department Leader at HZDR
    He has been appointed as Professor and leader of a department at the HZDR on June 1st 2024
    Research
    Research in the Department of Physical Chemistry focusses on the dynamics of elementary processes in solids and at surfaces, in particular, ultrafast dynamics of electronic excitations, electron-phonon coupling and interfacial charge transfer, surface reactions and molecular processes at interfaces as well as light-matter interaction at the nanoscale.
    Events & Seminars
    Mon., 12 May. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Edoardo Baldini
    (University of Texas at Austin)
    Title - tba
    Mon., 12 May. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Title - tba
    Edoardo Baldini 
    (University of Texas at Austin)
    Thu., 12 Jun. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Yuzu Kobayashi
    (RIKEN, Japan)
    Special Seminar - tba
    Thu., 12 Jun. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Special Seminar - tba
    Yuzu Kobayashi 
    (RIKEN, Japan)
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