Seth Marder

Fellow and Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder

Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder

Senior Research Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Seth Marder is the Director of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, which is joint between the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder) and the NREL. He is also a professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Chemistry, and a Fellow of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at CU-Boulder and a Senior Research Fellow at NREL. He has published over 600 peer reviewed papers with an H-index of 120 and over 72,000 citations (Google Scholar), has 40 issued patents and co-founded two successful start-up companies. He has edited several proceedings and books including two a volume set with Jean-Luc Bredas entitled The World Scientific Publishing Company Reference on Organic Electronics: Organic Semiconductors. Among his recognitions and awards, Dr. Marder was a recipient of an NSF Special Creativity Award, the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author, and its Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award (Georgia Tech’s highest award for any faculty member), the MRS Mid-Career Award, and a Humboldt Research Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Optical Society of America, SPIE, the Royal Society of Chemistry the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and the National Academy of Inventors and a Member of the World Cultural Council.