Speakers

Confirmed plenary speakers

Chronological order

 

Surface Science in the 21st century: dense, wet and fast

Monday, 31 August 2015, 09:30-10:30

Miquel Salmerón

Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

 


 

The dynamics of molecular interactions and chemical reactions at metal surfaces: Testing the foundations of theory.

Wednesday, 2 September, 08:30-09:30

Alec M. Wodtke
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

 


 

Surface Chemistry and Catalysis of Gold: Spanning materials complexity and pressure

Wednesday, 2 September, 09:30-10:30

Cynthia Friend

Prof. of Materials Science, Director of Rowland Institute, IMASC EFRC Director, Harvard University, Cambridge MA , USA

 


 

Atomic-Level Control of Two Dimensional Material Growth: From Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect to Interface-Enhanced High Tc Superconductivity

Friday, 4 September, 09:30-10:30

Qi-Kun Xue

Professor of Physics, Vice President for Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

 


 

 


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Reversible phase transitions on semiconductor surfaces and dynamical fluctuations: soft modes, correlation effects and molecular diffusion

Friday, 4 September, 11:00-12:00

Fernando Flores (EPS Invited Speaker)

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

 


 

 

 

Confirmed invited speakers (parallel sessions)

In alphabetical order

 

CVD graphene growth and characterisation by in-situ and in-operando STM studies

Thursday, 3 Sept, 16:30-17.00

Cristina Africh
IOM CNR, Laboratorio TASC, Trieste, Italy


Ionic conductivity in oxide thin films: the role of interface defects

Tuesday, 1 Sept, 11:00-11.30

Carmela Aruta
CNR-SPIN, Tor Vergata-Rome, Italy


Supported metallic and bimetallic nanocatalysts

Tuesday, 1 Sept, 09:00-09.30

Francesca Baletto
King's College London, UK


 


Looking at the structure of organic-organic interfaces in solar cells

Wednesday, 2 Sept, 11:00-11.30

Esther Barrena
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

 



Donor/acceptor monolayer blends on noble metal surfaces

Monday, 3 Sept, 11:30-12.00

Patrizia Borghetti
Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, France

 


 

Spin-orbit-induced spin textures of unoccupied states

Thusday, 3 Sept, 14:30-15.00


Markus Donath

Physikalisches Institut, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany

 


Bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons: From molecules to devices?

Thusday, 3 Sept, 12:00-12.30


Roman Fasel

Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland

 


 

Magnetism on the magnetite (001) surface

Monday 31 August, 11:00-11.30


Juan de la Figuera

Instituto de Química-Física Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

 


 

Exploring magnetic interaction strengths of metal-organic molecules on a superconductor

Monday 31 August, 15:30-16.00

Katharina Franke

Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

 


 

Single-ion magnets on metal and oxide surfaces

Tuesday 1 Sept, 10:00-10:30

Pietro Gambardella

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

 


Oxygen defects, surface chemistry and catalysis of ceria-based systems: Theoretical and experimental model catalysts

Monday 31 August, 16:30-17.00

M. Verónica Ganduglia-Pirovano

Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry - ICP/CSIC, Madrid, Spain

 



Self-Organised Growth of Epitaxial Silicide Nanoislands

Tuesday 1 Sept, 17:30-18:00

Ilan Goldfarb

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University Research Center for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel


Polarization-enabled electronic transport in ferroelectric heterostructures

Thusday 3 Sept, 08:30-09:00

Alexei Gruverman

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

 


Water structures and the wetting of metals and nano-structured interfaces

Tuesday 1 Sept, 11:45-12:15

Andrew Hodgson

Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK

 


 

Electronic structure and electron dynamics in two-dimensional materials

Tuesday 1 Sept, 16:30-17:00

Philip Hofmann

Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University, Denmark

 


Angle-resolved photoemission form transition-metal tri-chalcogenides. The surface and intercalation effects

Thursday 3 Sept, 11:00-11:30

Moritz Hoesch

Diamond Light Source, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK

 


 

Hydrogen production from water by thermal and photo-excited methods

Monday 31 August, 11:00-11:30


Hicham Idriss

University College London, UK & SABIC, KAUST, Saudi Arabia


Operando XPS studies of electrode surface stability in electrochemical energy storage systems

Thusday 3 Sept, 09:15-09:45


Daniil Itkis

Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia


Chemistry above and below graphene

Thusday 3 Sept, 10:00-10:30


Jan Knudsen

Lund University, MAX-Lab, Lund, Sweden


Charge re-distribution at organic interfaces to reach equilibrium

Monday 31 August, 12:00-12:30

Norbert Koch
Supramolekulare Systeme, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany




Collective behavior at electrochemical interfaces

Tuesday 1 Sept, 15:00-15:30

David Limmer
Princeton University, USA



Ultrafast surface chemistry and catalysis probed with optical and x-ray lasers

Wedneday 2 Sept, 12:00-12:30

Henrik Öström

Stockholm University, Sweden

 


 


Graphene/metal Moirés: Unveiling structural and electronic modulations with STM and DFT simulations

Tuesday 1 Sept, 14:30-15:00

Rubén Pérez

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

 


   


Polar discontinuities at grain boundaries in 2D materials

Monday 31 August , 14:30-15:00

Miguel Pruneda

Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Barcelona, Spain

 


   

 

Understanding charge and spin transport in graphene-based materials: from concepts to applications

Tuesday 1 Sept, 08:30-09:00

Stephan Roche
Head of the Theoretical & Computational Nanoscience Group, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology-ICN2, Barcelona, Spain



 

 

Chiral magnetic textures stabilized by interfaces: from domain walls to skyrmions

Wednesday 2 Sept, 12:00-12:30

Stanislas Rohart

Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France

 


 

 

Interfacing 3D topological insulators with magnetic perturbations: from single adatoms to self-assembled overlayers

Thusday 3 Sept, 15:15-15:45

Paolo Sessi

University of Würzburg, Germany

 


 


The role of functional groups for (supra)molecular assemblies on surfaces

Wednesday 2 Sept, 11:30-12:00

Meike Stöhr

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

 



Toward atom scale ultra low power electronic circuitry

Thursday 3 Sept, 08:30-09:00


Robert Wolkow

Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada