Prof. Thierry Visart de Bocarmé
Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Head of the Chemical Physics of Surfaces and Nanomaterials (ChemSIN) unit, Belgium. A regular expert and reviewer for the FNRS and high-impact journals, he has led multiple large-scale research projects funded by the Walloon Region and federal agencies. He is a world-renowned authority on heterogeneous catalysis, recognized for his pioneering use of Field Emission Microscopy (FEM) and Atom Probe Tomography to study surface reactions in real-time.
Title to be announced soon
Prof. Jan Čechal
Research Group Leader at the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) and a Professor of Applied Physics at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. A former Marie Curie Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, he is a leading expert in molecular self-assembly, graphene, and advanced surface characterization using STM and photoelectron spectroscopy.
Title: “Following molecular self-assembly and on-surface reactions by low-energy electron microscopy and difraction”
Prof. Grzegorz Greczyński
Head of the Fundamental Science of Thin Films unit at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Sweden, Chair of Advanced Surface Engineering of AVS, Editorial Board Member of Vacuum, Scientific Reports and the Advisory Editorial Board Member of Applied Surface Science Advance USA
Title: “Binding energy referencing in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy”
Prof. Franciszek Krok
Professor of Physics and Head of the Department of Solid State Physics at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. A member of the Committee on Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and a recipient of multiple Rector’s Awards for scientific excellence, he is a Principal Investigator of prestigious MAESTRO and OPUS grants. He is a recognized authority on nanostructure engineering and serves as a regular reviewer for high-impact journals such as Nature Communications.
Title to be announced soon
Prof. Anton Tamtögl
Principal Investigator and Associate Professor at Graz University of Technology, Austria. An Erwin Schrödinger Fellow with a strong track record of FWF-funded projects and over 10 accepted neutron beamtime proposals at ILL and FRM II, he is recognized for his pioneering research on the atomic-scale dynamics of 2D materials and surface diffusion.
Title: “Surface Dynamics of Graphene and h-BN: Coupling, Mobility, and Energy Dissipation”
Prof. Christoph Tegenkamp
Head of the Solid Surfaces Analysis group at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. He serves as Spokesperson for the DFG Research Unit FOR 5242 and is a member of the Editorial Boards for Wiley and the Institute of Physics (IOP) UK, specialising in the electronic properties of low-dimensional systems and epitaxial graphene.
Title: “Graphene-Based Epitaxial 2D Heterosystems: Harnessing Proximity Coupling for Emergent Quantum Phenomena.”
Prof. Michael Tringides
Professor of Physics at Iowa State University and Senior Physicist at the Ames National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy); Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of the AVS Theodore E. Madey Award for excellence in surface science. A world-renowned authority with over 8,000 citations, he has served as a NATO Co-Director and is a recognized Outstanding Referee for APS journals. He is a pioneer in the study of non-equilibrium surface phenomena and the electronic properties of graphene.
Title to be announced soon
Prof. Bert Voigtländer
Director at the Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-3) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, and a Professor of Experimental Physics at RWTH Aachen University. A pioneer in the development of multi-tip scanning tunnelling microscopy (multi-tip STM) and scanning proximity probes, he is a world-leading expert in the growth of nanostructures, surface transport, and atomic-scale characterization. He is the author of the definitive textbook Scanning Probe Microscopy and recipient of the Gaede Prize from the German Vacuum Society.
Title: “Nanoscale Charge Transport Measurements on 2D Quantum Materials with a Multi-Tip STM”
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