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
Wed., 15 Apr. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Dennis Hore
(University of Victoria, Canada)
Surface-Bulk Correlation Spectroscopy for the Determination of Adsorption Preference in Mixtures
Wed., 15 Apr. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Surface-Bulk Correlation Spectroscopy for the Determination of Adsorption Preference in Mixtures
Dennis Hore 
(University of Victoria, Canada)
Thu., 7 May. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Jahan Dawlaty
(University of Southern California)
Reactivity, Ionic Structure, and Solvation at The Air-Water Interface
Thu., 7 May. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Reactivity, Ionic Structure, and Solvation at The Air-Water Interface
Jahan Dawlaty 
(University of Southern California)
Wed., 3 Jun. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Hanyu Zhu
(Rice University, Huston, Texas, USA)
Dynamic Chirality at the Interface
Wed., 3 Jun. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Dynamic Chirality at the Interface
Hanyu Zhu 
(Rice University, Huston, Texas, USA)
News
  • Melanie Müller appointed as Professor at Universität Bonn
    Her group explores ultrafast dynamics and nonequilibrium behavior at the angstrom scale
  • Laurenz Rettig appointed as Professor at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
    His group studies ultrafast optical control of quantum materials and spin dynamics.
  •
    Sum-frequency Imaging Monolayers of Hexagonal Boron Nitride
    Absolute determination of crystal orientation and atomistic edge termination
  •
    Shrinking Terahertz Light to Nanoscale
    Ultraconfined THz phonon polaritons in hafnium selenides with confinement factors > λ0/250
  •
    Akitoshi Shiotari receives the Young Researcher Award of the NINS
    Honored for his single-molecule photochemistry research collaborated with IMS Japan
  •
    Scattering-type SNOM at 1-nm Resolution
    Plasmonic cavity combined with low-temperature noncontact AFM boosts spatial resolution
    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., 15 Apr. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Dennis Hore
    (University of Victoria, Canada)
    Surface-Bulk Correlation Spectroscopy for the Determination of Adsorption Preference in Mixtures
    Wed., 15 Apr. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Surface-Bulk Correlation Spectroscopy for the Determination of Adsorption Preference in Mixtures
    Dennis Hore 
    (University of Victoria, Canada)
    Thu., 7 May. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Jahan Dawlaty
    (University of Southern California)
    Reactivity, Ionic Structure, and Solvation at The Air-Water Interface
    Thu., 7 May. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Reactivity, Ionic Structure, and Solvation at The Air-Water Interface
    Jahan Dawlaty 
    (University of Southern California)
    Wed., 3 Jun. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Hanyu Zhu
    (Rice University, Huston, Texas, USA)
    Dynamic Chirality at the Interface
    Wed., 3 Jun. 2026, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Dynamic Chirality at the Interface
    Hanyu Zhu 
    (Rice University, Huston, Texas, USA)
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