Research Interests

  • Scanning tunneling microscopy
  • Heterogeneous catalysis
  • Graphene

Short CV

  • Studied chemistry at LMU, Munich
  • 1989 Ph.D. Fritz-Haber-Institut, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
  • 1991-1992 Postdoctoral research, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • 1998 Habilitation, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
  • Since 2002 Professor (C3) for Physical Chemistry, LMU Munich

Key publications

  • "Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of catalytic reactions", J. Wintterlin, Adv. Catal. 2000 45, 131.
  • "High-pressure STM of the interaction of oxygen with Ag(111)", R. Reichelt, S. Günther, M. Rößler, J. Wintterlin, B. Kubias, B. Jakobi, and R. Schlögl, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2007 9, 3590.
  • "Graphene on metal surfaces", J. Wintterlin and M.-L. Bocquet, Surf. Sci. 2009 603, 1841.