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Seth Marder Wins Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Atlanta (April 7, 2011) — This year, the American Chemical Society (ACS) honored Seth Marder, professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech and Georgia Power Chair of Energy Efficiency, with its Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award.
Marder was granted the honor for his “seminal contributions to the theory-inspired design, synthesis, characterization and application of organic second- and third-order nonlinear optical, photorefractive and electronic materials,” according to materials provided by the ACS.
Marder is known for his work in developing materials for nonlinear optics as well as organic electronics and photonics. He joined Georgia Tech in 2003 and is the founding director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics. Before that he was at the University of Arizona, the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 2009, Marder received Georgia Tech’s Outstanding Award for Research Program Development and was named a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, SPIE, the Optical Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Marder has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers and holds 18 patents. He is co-founder of Arizona Microsystems, LLC; Focal Point, LLC; and LumoFlex, LLC.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
