DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Director: Martin Wolf
Emeritus: Gerhard Ertl
Research Groups
Atomic-Scale Microscopy & Spectroscopy
Akitoshi Shiotari
Lattice Dynamics
Alex Paarmann
Nonlinear Interfacial Spectroscopy
Martin Thämer
Ultrafast Scanning Probe Microscopy
Melanie Müller
Emmy Noether Groups
Dynamics of Correlated Materials
Laurenz Rettig
THz Structural Dynamics
Sebastian Maehrlein
Max Planck Fellow
Structural & Electronic Surface Dynamics
Ralph Ernstorfer (also at TU-Berlin)
Associated & Former Groups
Nanoscale Surface Chemistry (IMS)
Takashi Kumagai (former website)
Electron Dynamiχ (HU Berlin)
A. Julia Stähler
Terahertz Physics (FU Berlin)
Tobias Kampfrath (former website)
... further Former Groups
Support Group
Technicians Group
Marcel Krenz
Events & Seminars
Wed., 26 Mar. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Toyo Kazu Yamada
(Chiba University, Japan)
Department Seminar - tba
Wed., 26 Mar. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Department Seminar - tba
Toyo Kazu Yamada 
(Chiba University, Japan)
News
  • 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
  •
    Spiraling Molecular Packing in Model Membranes
    Advances in SFG microscopy
  •
    Coherent Light Control of a
    Metastable Hidden State
    New insights into a complex phase transition
    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
    Wed., 26 Mar. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Toyo Kazu Yamada
    (Chiba University, Japan)
    Department Seminar - tba
    Wed., 26 Mar. 2025, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Department Seminar - tba
    Toyo Kazu Yamada 
    (Chiba University, Japan)
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