PART I: PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND KINETICS Heterogeneous Catalysis Heterogeneous catalytic processes Physical chemistry, elementary kinetics The state of the working catalyst Advanced kinetics, breakdown of mean field approximation PART II:MOLECULAR HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS Basic quantum chemical concepts, the chemical bond revisited (jointly written with I. Tranca) Chemical bonding and reactivity of transition metal surfaces Mechanisms of transition metal catalyzed reactions Solid acid catalysis, theory and reaction mechanisms Zeolitic non-redox and redox catalysis, Lewis acid catalysis Reducible solid state catalysts sakriti opis