1989 Ph.D. Fritz-Haber-Institut, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
1991-1992 Postdoctoral research, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
1998 Habilitation, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
Since 2002 Professor (C3) for Physical Chemistry, LMU Munich
Key publications
"Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of catalytic reactions", J. Wintterlin, Adv. Catal. 2000 45, 131.
"High-pressure STM of the interaction of oxygen with Ag(111)", R. Reichelt, S. Günther, M. Rößler, J. Wintterlin, B. Kubias, B. Jakobi, and R. Schlögl, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2007 9, 3590.
"Graphene on metal surfaces", J. Wintterlin and M.-L. Bocquet, Surf. Sci. 2009 603, 1841.