Scheffler, Matthias

The authors would like to thank their colleagues and collaborators Mikael Borg, Jeppe Burchhardt, Jochen Haase, Spren Hoffmann, Edvin Lundgren, Anders Mikkelsen, Wolfgang Moritz, Martin Nielsen, Ralf Nyholm, Jakob Petersen, Matthias Scheffler, and Cathy Stampfl for their contributions to the work reviewed here and for many stimulating discussions. Support of this work by the Danish and Swedish Natural Science Research Councils is gratefully acknowledged. 

People often ask, Why don t you change the name says Matthias Scheffler, one of the institute s five directors. Those who recognize Haber s name usually think of gas warfare, which isn t exactly the image that the institute wishes to cultivate. A high school in Berlin that once bore Haber s name did drop it a few years ago. It is now the Luise and Wilhelm Teske School, named for a shoemaker and his wife who hid Jews and other fugitives from the Nazis. 

The author thanks Sonke Lorenz, Karsten Reuter and Matthias Scheffler for discussions. Financial support by the DFG, the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and the Academy of Sciences of North-Rhine Westphalia is gratefully acknowledged. 

Simultaneous with Bradshaw s efforts, other significant changes were taking place at the institute that would transform it into an international hub of surface science. Deliberations about creating the institute s own theory department were already a part of the 1980 restructuring effort. The idea was to strengthen the PHI in the area of theory at the level of an Institute Director. A lengthy search identified Matthias Scheffler as a candidate for the directorship, and the MPG Senate called Scheffler to became Scientific Member and Director of the Theory Department on 1 July 1988. Another crucial facility for the PHI has been the Joint Network... 

Fig. 5.30. The Board of Directors of the FHI in 1992. From left to right Elmar Zeitler, Matthias Scheffler, Fiellmut G. Karge (administartive director), Gerhard ErtI, Jochen FI. Block, and Alexander M. Bradshaw.

The Director of the Theory Department is Matthias Scheffler, born in 1951 in Berlin. He earned his PhD in Physics from the Technische Universitat Berlin in 1978 with a thesis written at the PHI on Theory of Angular Resolved Photoemisson from Adsorbates. His advisers were Kurt Moliere (PHI), Kyozaburo Kambe (FHl) and Frank Forstmann (Freie Universitat Berlin and FHl). Prior to his appointment as Director at the FHl in 1988, he was a staff scientist at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig. In 2004 he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor for Computational Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he spends up to a quarter of the year. 

Forstmann, Kambe, Scheffler, Angle Resolved Photoemission] Forstmann, Frank/ Kyozaburo Kambe/Matthias Scheffler Calculations of Energy and Angle... 

Flans-Joachim Freund Gerard Meijer Matthias Scheffler Robert SchlogI Martin Wolf... 

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