Session 6 Materials SPM
Leo Gross is a Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research Europe – Zurich. He studied physics at the Free University of Berlin, at Tulane University, New Orleans, at University of Münster and received his PhD in physics in at FU Berlin in 2005. He joined the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in 2005 as a post doc in the group of Gerhard Meyer. Leo Gross pioneered atomic resolution of single molecules and charge-sensing on the atomic scale by atomic force microscopy (AFM). He develops and applies AFM and scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) for molecule identification, characterization and on-surface synthesis, and for studying charge transfer on the atomic scale.
Leo Gross received the Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award in 2010, the Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology in 2012 and the Silver Combustion Medal in 2020. He is Fellow of the American Physical Society and the European Academy of Sciences. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016 and an ERC Synergy Grant, together with Jascha Repp, University of Regensburg and Diego Peña, University of Santiago de Compostela, in 2021.