Main Focus

Present:
  • 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



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