Invited speakers

Invited talks during the regular topical sessions and dedicated symposia will be given by (lecturers’ surnames in alphabetical order; list not closed):

• Michael Altman (Hong Kong, China)
  "Structure and dynamics of surfaces revealed by LEEM and micro-LEED" 
• Johannes Barth (Garching, Germany)
  "Bottom-up design of functional surface coordination architectures" 
• Roland Bennewitz (Saarbrucken, Germany)
  "Atomic friction experiments under electrochemical control"
• Uwe Bovensiepen (Duisburg, Germany)
  "Ultrafast spin-dependent electron dynamics at interfaces: How to separate decay, transfer, and transport contributions"
• Harald Brune (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  "Understanding and engineering of magnetic anisotropies of nanostructures employing 2D and 1D interface"
• J. Hugo Dil (Villigen, Switzerland)
  "Towards spin manipulation in topological insulators"
• Nicolas Dinter (Gif/Yvette, France)
  "Functionalized vertically aligned carbon nanotubes: A surface chemistry study through electrokinetic potential measurement"
• John Ellis (Cambridge, UK)
  "Helium spin echo: A unique window onto surface dynamics"
• Michele Fabrizio (Trieste, Italy)
  "Surface dead layer in correlated systems" 
• Thomas Fauster (Erlangen, Germany)
  "Two-photon photoemission on graphene layers and silicon surfaces"
• Michael Graetzel (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  "Solar to electric power conversion by dye sensitized mesoscopic photovoltaic cells"
• Leo Gross (Ruschlikon, Switzerland)
  "Molecular structure identification using noncontact AFM with functionalized tips"
• Rolf Heid (Karlsruhe, Germany)
  "Electron-phonon coupling at metal surfaces and thin films from first principles"
• Philip Hofmann (Aarhus, Denmark)
  "Structure and thermal properties of graphene studied  by core-level spectroscopy"
• Salvatore Iannotta (Parma, Italy)
  "Controlling surface processes by molecular kinetic energy and momentum: From molecular assembling to kinetic activated chemistry to better performing devices"
• Abdelkader Kara (Orlando, USA)
  "Self-Learning Kinetic Monte Carlo applied to island diffusion and coalescence" 
• Jacek J. Kołodziej (Cracow, Poland)
  "Structure of the In-terminated InAs(001) and InSb(001) surfaces"
• Marc Koper (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  "Fundamental surface science studies of electrocatalytic reactions"
• Takanori Koshikawa (Osaka, Japan)
  "Dynamic investigation of surface magnetic domains with novel high brightness and high spin-polarized SPLEEM"
• Zhi-Pan Liu (Shanghai, China)
  "Mechanism and Tafel kinetics for important electro-catalytic reactions from first-principles-based simulation" 
• Jorge Lobo-Checa (Barcelona, Spain)
  "Nanoporous supramolecular networks: From its architecture to its electronic structure"
• Andrea Locatelli (Trieste, Italy)
  "Stress-induced stripe patterns in metal adlayers on W(110)"
• Chris McConville (Warwick, UK)
  "Post-transition metal oxide semiconductors"
• Ronan McGrath (Liverpool, UK)
  "Surfaces of quasicrystals: structure, epitaxy and reactivity"
• Carl Menning (Wilmington, USA)
  "Regeneration and dissolution of bimetallic surfaces" 
• Angelos Michaelides (London, UK)
  "Some recent progress on understanding water solid interfaces"
• Florian Mittendorfer (Vienna, Austria)
  "Ultrathin surface oxides on transition metals: Catalytic and magnetic properties"
• Falko Netzer (Graz, Austria)
  "Structure concepts and phase transitions in metal-supported oxide nanostructures" 
• Niklas Nilius (Berlin, Germany)
  "Tailoring the properties of thin oxide films via doping"
• J.W. (Hans) Niemantsverdriet (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
  "Interactions between molecules on surfaces and their effect on reactivity"
• Herbert Over (Giessen, Germany)
  "Atomic scale understanding of the HCl oxidation over RuO2, a novel Deacon process" 
• Ruben Perez (Madrid, Spain)
  "Adhesion hysteresis in molecular systems" 
• Claire-Marie Pradier (Paris, France)
  "Peptide interaction with metal surfaces, from UHV to liquid phase investigation"
• Erik Reimhult (Vienna, Austria)
  "Ultrastable superparamagnetic nanoparticle interfacial design and assembly"
• Philippe Sautet (Lyon, France)
  "Mechanistic insight in selective hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis reactions catalyzed by transition metals from DFT"
• Frederik Schiller (San Sebastian, Spain)
  "Surface state engineering by surface alloying"
• Noriaki Takagi (Tokyo, Japan)
  "Molecular magnetism at surface explored by single molecule spectroscopy"
• Christoph Tegenkamp (Hannover, Germany)
  "Electronic transport and collective excitations in atomic wires" 
• Antonio Tejeda (Nancy, France)
  "Correlation effects on semiconducting surfaces"
• Michael Tringides (Ames, USA)
  "Metal adsorption on epitaxial graphene on SiC: Weak vs strong interaction"
• Charyia Virojanadara (Linkoping, Sweden)
  "Epitaxial graphene: Growth, characterization and functionalization"
• Hanno H. Weitering (Knoxville, USA)
  "Electronic instabilities, fluctuations, and transport in epitaxial quantum chains" 
• Martin Wenderoth (Gottingen, Germany)
  "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Playing with electric fields on the atomic scale"
• Roland Wiesendanger (Hamburg, Germany)
  "Computing with atoms on surfaces: Towards atomic spin logic devices"
• Helmut Winter (Berlin, Germany)
  "Fast atom diffraction from surfaces" 
• Christof Woell (Karlsruhe, Germany)
  "Surface-templated assembly of functional metal-organic networks: Entering the third dimension"