Seth R. Marder is an American physical chemist best known for his development of the quantum mechanical foundations of nonlinear electro-optics in organic dyes and materials.

Education

Marder obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1978 and doctorate from Wisconsin-Madison in 1985 after which he was a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford from 1985-1987.

Career

He then moved to work on the technical staff of the NASA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...

(JPL) at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1987–1998, where he was awarded the

Lew Allen Award for Excellence Lew Allen Award for Excellence is a medal of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Established in 1986 as the ''Director’s Research Achievement Award;'' it was then renamed in honor of JPL's Director Lew Allen when he retired in 1990. This award recogn ...

in 1993. From 1998 to 2003 Marder was Professor of Chemistry and Optical Sciences at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

before moving to

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

where he served as a

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in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Marder serves as the chair of the editorial board of the academic journal

Materials Horizons ''Materials Horizons'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research across the breadth of materials science at the interface between chemistry, physics, biology and engineering. The current editor-in-chief is Martina Sten ...

. As of 2021, Marder accepted a position at the University of Colorado Boulder in a joint appointment as a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Department of Chemistry. He also serves as the Director of CU Boulder's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute.

Research interests

His research interests are in the development of materials for nonlinear optics, applications of organic dyes for photonic, display, electronic and medical applications, and organometallic chemistry. He currently studies

polymers A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + ''-mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic an ...

nanostructures A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structures. Nanostructural detail is microstructure at nanoscale. In describing nanostructures, it is necessary to differentiate between the number of dimensi ...

, and biomolecular solids.

Fellowships

He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

, the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

and the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marder, Seth Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni University of Arizona faculty Georgia Tech faculty Jet Propulsion Laboratory faculty American physical chemists Fellows of Optica (society) Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science