Staff Profile:Professor Georg Held
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- Director of Research
- Professor in Surface Science
- Diamond Fellow
Building/Room: Chemistry/119
Prof Held's research interests focus on fundamental aspects of heterogeneous catalysis. One key activity is the study of surface geometries by electron and X-ray diffraction, another the study of substrate and adsorbate properties by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) Spectroscopy. Currently he holds major grants from EPSRC and the European Commission (network grants "MONET" and "SMALL" funded by the Marie Curie programme) and receives regular beamtime awards at European and US synchrotron facilities. The experiments investigate the adsorption and reactions of small bio-relevant molecules (e.g. amino acids) and water on metal surfaces and the geometries and the electronic structure of surfaces alloys and thin oxide films. This research is carried out in collaboration with departmental colleagues, in particular Drs. Roger Bennett and David Nutt, and Diamond Light Source.
