List of Main Invited Speakers

ALC'21 Online

Prof. Masakazu AONO (MANA/NIMS): Nano World Pioneered by Surface Science and Technology
Prof. Dr. Hannes LICHTE (Technische Universität Dresden): Electron Holography: Electron Waves for Comprehensive Analysis of Nanostructures and Fields — Possibilities and Limits
Prof. Neil FOX (University of Bristol): Energy-filtered Spectromicroscopy with a Laser-Driven, Tunable Light Source

Prof. Maki KAWAI (Institute for Molecular Science): Behavior of Molecules at Surfaces — Fundamental Understanding of Catalysis and Molecule to Function in IT —
Prof. Dr. Frank-J. MEYER ZU HERINGDORF (University Duisburg-Essen): Nonlinear Photoemission Microscopy with Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Prof. Karl-Heinz ERNST (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology): Chirality and the emergence of molecular structure
Prof. Yoshinori FUJIYOSHI (Nagoya University): Cryo-EM changes structural biology
Dr. Mitsugu SATO (Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation): Optimization theory for scanning electron microscopy based on the information content of optical images

Prof. Masashi WATANABE (Lehigh University): Toward single-atom characterization in a thin specimen by an analytical electron microscope

Prof. Franz J. GIESSIBL (University of Regensburg): Exploring atomic forces on the picoscale
Prof. Hideo OHNO (Tohoku University): Spintronics Nanodevices – From Interface to Advanced Computation
Prof. Akira FUJISHIMA (Tokyo University of Science): Photoexcited Interface Reactions ― Photocatalysis and Its Applications

Prof. Chuhei OSHIMA (Waseda University): Extreme-High-Vacuum Technology and High-Energy-Resolution Electron Spectroscopy

Dr. Tetsuya ISHIKAWA (RIKEN): New Trends in Atomic Level Characterization with Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Lasers
Prof. Yahachi SAITO (Nagoya University): Field Emission from carbon nanotube and graphene: Its Application and Related Phenomena
Prof. Matthias SCHEFFLER (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society): Big-Data Routes for Atomic-Level Characterization of Novel Materials

Prof. Hans-Joachim FREUND (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society): The Surface Science of Catalysis and More, Using Ultrathin Oxide Films as Templates: A Perspective
Prof. Wolf-Dieter SCHNEIDER (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society): A Small World
Prof. Peter VARGA (CEITEC BUT): Artificially Controlled Graded Magnonic Structures on FeNi Films by FIB

Prof. Hiroshi AMANO (Nagoya University, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2014): Group III nitride semiconductors as future key materials for energy savings and energy harvesting

Prof. Peter BAUER (Johannes Kepler University Linz): Electronic stopping of ions in solids

Prof. David B. WILLIAMS (Ohio State University): Forward to the past: now we can image and identify single atoms, what’s next?
Prof. Hannes LICHTE (Dresden University): Importance of electron phases for comprehensive analysis of structures and fields
Prof. Jiro MATSUO (Kyoto University): Exploring of organic surfaces with secondary ion mass spectrometry: from polymers to biological materials

Prof. Masatake HARUTA (Tokyo Metropolitan University): Catalytic Performance and Atomic Scale Structures of Supported Gold Nanoparticles
Prof. Franz HASSELBACH (Universität Tübingen): Progress in Low Energy Electron Biprism Interferometry
Prof. Peter VARGA (TU Vienna): Is an Image Worth More than 1000 WORDS?

Prof. Toshio ANDO (Kanazawa University): Dynamic Imaging of Protein Molecules in Action by High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy
Prof. Jürgen KIRSCHNER (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik): Spin-polarized Electronic States on Magnetic Nano-islands
Prof. Hu-Chul LEE (Seoul National University & POSTECH): Phase Transition of Grain Boundary Precipitates during Isothermal Aging of Fe-Mn-Ni and Fe-Ni-Ti Alloys
Prof. Jing ZHU (Tsinghua University): Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy Study of Materials in Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy