The Surface Structure Prize is awarded to Karl-Heinz Ernst, Distinguished Senior Researcher at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology for his groundbreaking work on chiral molecules and chiral structures at surfaces.
The selected work is presented by the awardee as an invited lecture at the ICSOS meeting. The 14th International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces (ICSOS-14) will be held at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, from June 2 to 6, 2025.
The Surface Structure Prize
The prize is awarded to one (or jointly to two or three) scientist(s), for an outstanding body of work in the field of surface and interface structure. For joint awards, the bodies of work must be closely related, such as in close collaborations or competing developments. The selected work is presented by the awardee(s) as an invited lecture at the ICSOS meeting.
David Spichiger, SCS
12.03.2025