Prof. Christof Wöll from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, visited Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) at the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry on June 11th, 2015. While staying at FJIRSM, Prof. Christof Wöll delivered a seminar report entitled “Supramolecular Chemistry for Interface Functionalisation”, and carried out detailed discussion with the research staff at FJIRSM.

Prof. Christof Wöll,has accepted in June 2009 an offer to become a W3 professor at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). At the same time he has been appointed director of the Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) .

Wöll studied physics at the University of Göttingen and was awarded a PhD in 1987 for work carried out under the supervision of Peter Toennies at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen. From 1988 to 1989, he worked as a research associate at the IBM research laboratories, San Jose, CA/USA. Then, he hold a position equivalent to Assistant Professor at the Chair of Applied Physical Chemistry of the University of Heidelberg (Head of chair: Prof. Michael Grunze) for five years. His research interests include basic processes of surface chemistry，development of experimental techniques for the characterization of molecular adsorbates on metal and oxide surfaces and organic surfaces.