News

01.05.2023
Matthias Zeilerbauer joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!

21.12.2022
Last paper of the year, just published in Nanoscale!
There we demonstrated how near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) enables the in situ observation of dynamic covalent chemistry driving the growth of 2D covalent organic frameworks.

02.12.2022
Our paper on the in-situ observation of hydrocarbon chain growth on Ni(111) has been published in Angewandte Chemie.

03.10.2022
Daniel Baranowski (Elettra synchrotron) joined us for a research stay. Welcome in Innsbruck!

18.06.2022
After a two-year delay due to the pandemic, I finally received the Gustav-Hertz Prize award in Bad Honnef!
Many thanks to the prize committee and the DPG!

13.06.2022
Pietro Biasin from the University of Trieste will join us for the next 6 weeks for a research stay. Welcome!

25.04.2022
It's official: I will be joining the University of Innsbruck as an Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry in September!
PhD positions available, come and join us!

10.01.2022
I am thrilled to be awarded an ERC Starting Grant!
The WEPOF project aims at resolving excited states in photoactive covalent organic frameworks.
PhD positions opening soon...

10.01.2022
Aaron Oechsle will spend the next few weeks in our lab, welcome!

25.11.2021
Lucia Mengel joins our lab for a research internship. She will study the on-surface synthesis of 2D polymers.

17.11.2021
Our paper about Na-promoted polymerization of hexaazatriphenylene molecules on Ag(111) is published in Angewandte Chemie.  Great collaboration with colleagues from Bern, Prague, and Regensburg!

08.11.2021
Back to the Elettra synchrotron (Trieste, Italy) for a beamtime! This time to measure the catalytic growth of organic polymers on metal surfaces.  

07.06.2021
Nico Radde joins for a research internship. He will work on COF's spectromicroscopy. 

02.06.2021
We are having (remote) beamtime at the SPECIES beamline of the MAX IV synchrotron (Lund, Sweden). Investigating hydrocarbon polymerization under reaction conditions!

12.01.2021
Sipeng Liu will (virtually) join the group for his research internship. 

16.11.2020
Markus Pietsch will spend the next few weeks in our lab, studying new ways to make crystalline 2D-COFs.

01.10.2020
Johanna Plansky joins for a research internship. She will work on the synthesis and STM imaging of 2D-COFs. Welcome!