| Mark Van der Auweraer | Photochemistry, quantum chemistry, molecular imaging | | 1982 | 1983 | Heinz Gerischer (post-doc) |
| Lichen Bai | electrocatalysis, energy material, in-situ spectroscopy | Department of Interface Science | 2021 | | Beatriz Roldan Cuenya (post-doc) |
| R. Jürgen Behm | Surface Science, Physical Chemistry, Catalysis | | | | Gerhard Ertl (grad student) |
| Dan Bizzotto | Physical Chemistry | | | | Bruno Pettinger (post-doc) |
| Volker Blum | | | 2004 | 2013 | Matthias Scheffler (research scientist) |
| Carlos Alberto Carrero | Heterogeneous Catalysis, Supported Metal Oxide Catalysis, In situ/Operando Raman spectroscopy, Chemical Kinetics, Oxidative Dehydrogenation | Inorganic | 2009 | 2012 | Robert Schlögl (grad student) |
| Andre Fielicke | | | | | |
| Jan Hermann | materials science, theoretical chemistry, computational chemistry | | | | |
| Katharina Krischer | self-organization in physical and physicochemical systems; electrocatalysis | | | | Gerhard Ertl (grad student) |
| Xi Liu | Physical Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry | 2004 | 2008 | Robert Schlögl (grad student) |
| Gerard J. M. Meijer | molecular physics | | | | |
| Wolfgang Moritz | | | | | |
| Toyin Omojola | Surface chemistry, kinetics, reaction engineering, fluid dynamics, catalysis | Inorganic Chemistry | 2019 | 2021 | Robert Schlögl (post-doc) |
| Herbert Over | | Institut für Physikalische Chemie Institut für Physikalische Chemie | 1993 | 2001 | Wolfgang Moritz (grad student), Gerhard Ertl (research scientist) |
| Bruno Pettinger | | | | | |
| Nicolas C. Polfer | Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry | | | 2007 | Gerard J. M. Meijer (post-doc) |
| Christopher A. Sutton | | | 2015 | 2020 | Matthias Scheffler (post-doc) |
| Liviu Cristian Tănase | Ferroelectrics, Heterogenous catalysis, Model sistems | | | | |
| Alexandre Tkatchenko | | | 2007 | 2010 | Matthias Scheffler (post-doc) |
| Hamilton Varela | physical chemistry, electrochemistry, non-linear dynamics | | 2000 | 2003 | Katharina Krischer (grad student) |
| Gisela Weinberg | | | 1990 | | Karl Doblhofer (grad student) |
| Marc Georg Willinger | Catalysis, Electron Microscopy, Material Science | Inorganic Chemistry | 2011 | 2018 | Robert Schlögl (research scientist) |
| Rui Patrick Xian | | Physical Chemistry | 2017 | 2019 | Ralph Ernstorfer (post-doc) |