Seth Marder

• Advanced Materials
• Nonlinear Optics
• Polymers, nanostructures and interfaces
• Optoelectronics
• Solar Energy Harvesting

Seth Marder, PhD joined RASEI as the Director in July 2021.

He received his BA in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford, he moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology. From 1998 to 2003 Marder was Professor of Chemistry and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona before moving to Georgia Institute of Technology where he was the Regents Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. In 2021 Marder accepted the position of Director of RASEI.

Dr. Marder has served on numerous advisory boards for journals and is the founding chair of the editorial board for the Royal Society of Chemistry materials journal Materials Horizons.

At CU Boulder Dr. Marder has joint appointments in chemical and biological engineering within the College of Engineering and Applied Science and in chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.  He is a RASEI fellow with a joint appointment at NREL.

Dr. Marder is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Materials Research Society, the Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), the Optical Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the World Cultural Council.