Jörg Meyer

The main research interest of Jörg Meyer is to understand energy dissipation at the atomic scale. For example, chemical reactions go hand-in-hand with an energy exchange with the environment in which they take place. Surfaces offer a variety of energy dissipation channels, constituted by the nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom of the surface atoms. He employs a variety of computational modelling techniques ranging from the electronic structure to the force-field levels and investigate important implications for example for heterogeneous as well as electrocatalysis and astrochemistry.