Topic 1: Organic structures on surfaces: self-assembly, synthesis and device integration

• Gabriela Borin-Barin (EMPA Dübendorf) -

  ’Bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons: from ultrahigh vacuum to device integration’
  (keynote)

• Alessandro Sala (CNR Trieste) -

  ’Multiscale charactarization of functionalized 2D materials: from quantum confinement to embedding of foreign atoms.’

• Aran Garcia-Lekue (DIPC San Sebastian) - ’Functional 1D and 2D molecular nanoarchitectures: insights from theory and simulations’
   
• Marc González Cuxart (Cataln Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) - Technical University of Munich) - ’Growth and atomic-scale insights into 2D materials beyond graphene towards templating of molecular self-assembly ’
   
• Martina Lihter (EPFL Lausanne) - ’Fabrication and functionalization of 2D materials for sensing and nanofluidics applications’
   
• Meike Stöhr (FH Graubünden) - ’Molecular networks from cyano-functionalized porphyrins: how substrate and intermolecular interactions influence their properties’
   
• Lukas Grossmann (TU München) - ’Various concepts for the on-surface synthesis of regular 2D polymers’
   
• Sabine Maier (Universität Erlangen) - ’On-surface synthesis: A versatile bottom-up strategy to low-dimensional carbon-based materials'
   

Topic 2: Complex macromolecules at surfaces: beyond thermal sublimation

• Stephan Rauschenbach (University Oxford) -

  ’Atomic level structure determination by scanning probe and electron microscopy of mass-selected, surface adsorbed molecules enabled by electrospray ion beam deposition in vacuum’ (keynote)

• Remy Pawlak (Universität Basel) - ’Supra-molecular assemblies on metals characterized by low-temperature atomic force microscopy’
   
• Kelvin Anggara (MPI Stuttgart) - ’Imaging and interrogating complex biomolecules at single molecule level’
   
• Mikhail Fonin (Universität Konstanz)
   
• Xiaocui Wu (University Warwick) - ’Characterization of Polymerisation Defects in Rigid Rod Conjugated Polymers’
   
• Andreas Walz (TU München) -

  ’Soft-Landing meets Mass-Spectrometry - gentle UHV deposition for large, reactive or fragile molecules to create functional nano-architectures
   

Topic 3: Manipulation of single molecules

• Shigeki Kawai (NIMS Tsukuba) - ’On-Surface Chemistry with High-Resolution STM/AFM’ (keynote)
   
• Kwan Ho Au-Yeung (TU Dresden) - ’A Nanocar and Rotor in One Molecule’
   
• Florian Albrecht (IBM Research Zurich) - ’Selectivity in single-molecule reactions by tip-induced redox chemistry’
   
• Grant Simpson  (Universität Graz) - ’Directional motion on surfaces investigated at the single-molecule scale’
   
• Alexander Weismann (Universität Kiel) - ’Tuning molecular magnetism and vibrational excitations by supramolecular manipulation'
   

(Novel) characterization methods for functional materials on surfaces

• Erik Vesselli (Università degli studi di Trieste) -

  Ligation and molecular activation at 2D biomimetic functional materials. A surface science perspective (keynote)

• Elizabeth Boer-Duchemin (CNRS Paris) -
  Electrical excitation of surface plasmons and excitons
   
• Søren Ulstrup (Aarhus University) - ’Electronic structure and many-body effects in 2D materials up-close with nanoARPES’
   
• Markus Huber (Universität Regensburg) -
  Ultrafast terahertz nanoscopy of modern quantum materials
   
• Melanie Müller (FHI Berlin) - ’Exploring ultrafast dynamics in 2D materials with femtosecond scanning tunnelling microscopy’
   
• Sebastian Loth (Universität Stuttgart) - ’Ultrafast surface dynamics of 2D materials studied with THz-STM’
   
• Michael Crommie (Berkeley University)
   
• Marcel Reutzel (University of Göttingen) -
  Momentum microscopy & 2D materials: Excitons in space and time