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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Physical Chemistry at Surfaces,Spectroscopy |
| Keywords | chemical dynamics, laser spectroscopy, surface dynamics, energy conversion |
| Honours and awards | 2010: Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2009: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society 2007: Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1998: Alexander von Humboldt Research Award to Senior Scientists 1992: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1992: Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award 1989: National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Göttingen |
| Institution | Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften |
| Institute | Abteilung 010 |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Peter Andresen | Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld |
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| Prof. Dr. Gerard Meijer | Abteilung Molekülphysik, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin |
| Prof. Dr. Kurt E. Figura | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen |
| Prof. Dr. Helmut Grubmüller | Abteilung für theoretische computergestützte Biophysik, Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Göttingen |
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulrike Beisiegel | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen |
| Prof. Dr. Helmut Grubmüller | Abteilung für Dynamik an Oberflächen, Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Göttingen |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/1998 |
Program(s)
| 1997 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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| 2010 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship |
Nominator's project description
| Alec Wodtke has made significant contributions to photo and atmospheric chemistry and is a world leader in the field of molecular interactions at interfaces. His work has produced fundamental contributions to catalysis research, the storage and conversion of chemical energy into electrical energy and interface research. This topic is set to be developed into a focus area at Göttingen University as well as at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. Wodtke is scheduled to become the founding director of a new Centre for Advanced Studies in Energy Conversion. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2011 | Alec Michael Wodtke, Knott, B. C., Larue, J. L., Doherty, M. F., Peters, B: Bubbles, Crystals and Laser Induced Nucleation. In: Journal of Chemical Physics (selected as a research highlight for JCP's web page), 2011, 171102 |
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| 2011 | Alec Michael Wodtke, Jerry L. LaRue, Tim Schäfer, Daniel Matsiev, Luis Velarde, N. Hedrik Nahler, Daniel J. Auerbach: Electron kinetic energies from vibrationally promoted surface exoemission: Evidence for a vibrational autodetachment mechnism. In: J. Phys. Cehm. A, 2011, 14306-14314 |
| 2011 | Alec Michael Wodtke, Christof Bartels, Russell Cooper, Daniel J. Auerbach: Energy Transfer at Metal Surfaces: The need to go beyond the electronic friction picture. In: Chem. Sci., 2011, 1647 |
| 2011 | Alec Michael Wodtke, Alfredo Quinto-Hernandez, Chris J. Bennett, Y. Seol Kim, Ralf I. Kaiser: On the Interacton of Methyl Azide (CH3N3) Ices with Ionizing Radiation and Implications to Titan's Chemistry. In: J. Phys. Chem, 2011, 250-264 |
| 2011 | Alec Michael Wodtke, Daniel Matsiev, Zhisheng Li, Russel Cooper, Daniel J. Auerbach: On the Temperature Dependence of Electronically Nonadiabatic Vibrational Energy Transfer in Molecule-Surface Collisions. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011, 8153-8162 |
| 2011 | Alec Michael Wodtke, Alfredo Quinto-Hernandez, Yin Yu Lee, Tzu-Ping Huang, Wan-Chun Pan, Ricardo Al Mata: Photoionization of CH3N3 produces 3B2N3: A theoretical and experimantal study of the ion-pair channel. In: J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2011, 2311-2315 |
| 2011 | Alec Michael Wodtke, Igor Rahinov, Russ Cooper, Christof Bartels, Daniel Matsief, Daniel J. Auerbach: Quantifying the break-down of the Born-Oppenheimer approxiamtion in surface chemistry. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011, 12680-12692 |
| 2011 | Alec Michael Wodtke, Jerry Larue, Tim Schäfer, Daniel Matsiev, Luis Velarde, Daniel J. Auerbach: Vibrationally promoted electron emission at a metal surface: Electron Kinetic Energy Distributions. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Phiyics, 2011, 97-99 |