Catalysis and Surface Chemistry

The research aim of the Catalysis and Surface Chemistry group headed by Prof. Marc Koper is to probe and understand chemical reactions on well-defined, mostly single crystalline, surfaces at the molecular level.

The group combines state-of-the-art experimental setups to study surface catalytic reactions using a variety of spectroscopic and microscopic techniques, both at the metal-vacuum, metal-liquid and metal-gas interface with computational techniques based on density functional theory and dynamic Monte Carlo simulations.