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., 21 Jul. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Online Seminar  -  Seminar Link
Maya Chauhan
(Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad)
Optical Fiber Sensing and Super-Resolution Microscopy
Mon., 21 Jul. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Online Seminar  -  Seminar Link
Optical Fiber Sensing and Super-Resolution Microscopy
Maya Chauhan 
(Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad)
Tue., 22 Jul. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Xiaoyang Zhu
(Columbia University, New York)
Correlated Motions of Electrons, Spins, and Dipoles in 2D vdW Materials
Tue., 22 Jul. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Correlated Motions of Electrons, Spins, and Dipoles in 2D vdW Materials
Xiaoyang Zhu 
(Columbia University, New York)
Fri., 22 Aug. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Wei Xiong
(University of California, San Diego)
Shedding Infrared Light on Molecules: From Molecular Polaritons to Hyperspectral Imaging
Fri., 22 Aug. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Shedding Infrared Light on Molecules: From Molecular Polaritons to Hyperspectral Imaging
Wei Xiong 
(University of California, San Diego)
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    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., 21 Jul. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Online Seminar  -  Seminar Link
    Maya Chauhan
    (Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad)
    Optical Fiber Sensing and Super-Resolution Microscopy
    Mon., 21 Jul. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Online Seminar  -  Seminar Link
    Optical Fiber Sensing and Super-Resolution Microscopy
    Maya Chauhan 
    (Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad)
    Tue., 22 Jul. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Xiaoyang Zhu
    (Columbia University, New York)
    Correlated Motions of Electrons, Spins, and Dipoles in 2D vdW Materials
    Tue., 22 Jul. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Correlated Motions of Electrons, Spins, and Dipoles in 2D vdW Materials
    Xiaoyang Zhu 
    (Columbia University, New York)
    Fri., 22 Aug. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Wei Xiong
    (University of California, San Diego)
    Shedding Infrared Light on Molecules: From Molecular Polaritons to Hyperspectral Imaging
    Fri., 22 Aug. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Shedding Infrared Light on Molecules: From Molecular Polaritons to Hyperspectral Imaging
    Wei Xiong 
    (University of California, San Diego)
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