Christof Wöll

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Christof Wöll (born April 6, 1959 in Kassel ) is a German physicist and physical chemist.

Wöll studied physics at the University of Göttingen (Diploma 1984) and received his doctorate there in 1987 under Jan Peter Toennies at the Max Planck Institute for Flow Research . As a post-doctoral student , he worked at the IBM research laboratories in San José with Shirley Chiang until 1989 and then assistant to Michael Grunze at the chair for applied physical chemistry at Heidelberg University . In 1992 he completed his habilitation. From 1994 to 1996 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation. After completing his habilitation in 1997, he became Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Ruhr University in Bochum (successor to Hans-Joachim Freund ) and in 2000 founded the Collaborative Research Center SFB 558 (Metal-Substrate Interactions in Heterogeneous Catalysis). In 2009 he became professor and director of the Institute for Functional Interfaces at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

In 2001 he was visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and in 2006 at the University of Nagoya .

Wöll deals with the physics and chemistry of surfaces. Among other things, he researches organic and oxidic surfaces, heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, surface-anchored metallic organic frameworks (MOFs) with methods of supramolecular chemistry and further development of techniques for the characterization of absorbates on metal and oxide surfaces.

In 2013 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 2016 he became spokesman for the Surface Physics Association of the German Physical Society . In 2016 he received the van't Hoff Prize of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry. In 1988 he received the Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society. In 2019 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

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  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Christof Wöll (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on September 17, 2016.
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SURNAME Wöll, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel