Seth Marder

Seth Marder is an American chemist best known for his self-proclaimed development of the quantum mechanical foundations of polymeric nonlinear electro-optics.

Seth Marder is currently a Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, (courtesy) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a co-founder of Arizona Microsystems, L.L.C., Focal Point L.L.C and LumoFlex, L.L.C. and is a member of the scientific advisory board of Lumera Corporation.Dr. Marder obtained a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from MIT in 1978 and his Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, where he was a W. R. Grace Fellow. Dr. Marder then was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford from 1985–1987. After his stay at Oxford, he moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where he was a National Research Council Resident Research Associate from 1987–1989.He later became a Member of the Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a Member of the Beckman Institute at Caltech and Associate Director, for the Office of Naval Research Center for Advanced Multi-Functional Nonlinear Optical Polymers and Molecular Assemblies, until he moved to the University of Arizona in 1998. He has been appointed the founding director of the Consortium for Advanced Nanoscopic Science and Technology at the University of Arizona and is the Deputy Director and co-principal investigator on the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center: Materials and Device for Information Technology Research. In 2003 he moved to the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he was appointed the founding director for the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Material Sciences and Engineering. In addition Dr. Marder is a guest professor at Shanghai Jiaotung University, Huazhang University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University. 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. Recently, his research group has been systematically designing dyes for large two-photon absorption cross sections for a variety of applications ranging from two-photon induced polymerization to dyes for two-photon fluorescence microscopy. Dr. Marder was the 1993 recipient of JPL's Lew Allen Award for outstanding research by a scientist in the early part of his career, a recipient of an NSF Special Creativity Award, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003) and the Optical Society of America (2004) and SPIE (2006). He has co-authored over 200 research papers, has organized or served on organizing committees for over thirty-five scientific conferences, including chairing the Seventh International Conference on Organic Nonlinear Optics. In addition Dr. Marder has co-edited several proceedings including an ACS symposium series monograph entitled "Materials for Nonlinear Optics: Chemical Perspectives", as well as proceedings for SPIE and MRS. He has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science Magazine and as a member of the Editorial Board for Chemistry of Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Optics, the Journal of Materials Chemistry and the International Advisory Board for Chemical Communications. He has also been a guest editor for several journals including an issue of Advanced Functional Materials.

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