{"609525":{"#nid":"609525","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Humboldt Research Award to Seth Marder","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.humboldt-foundation.de\/web\/home.html\u0022\u003EAlexander von Humboldt Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E has selected \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/marder\/\u0022\u003ESeth Marder\u003C\/a\u003E to receive a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.humboldt-foundation.de\/web\/humboldt-award.html\u0022\u003EHumboldt Research Award\u003C\/a\u003E. The award recognizes a researcher\u0026rsquo;s entire achievements to date. Recipients are academics whose fundamental discoveries, theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarder is Regents Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Georgia Power Chair in Energy Efficiency. He is also the 2018 recipient of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s highest honor, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/604817\u0022\u003Ethe Class of 1934\u0026nbsp;Distinguished Professor Award\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarder is internationally recognized for leadership in developing structure-property relationships for organic and metallo-organic materials for optical and electronic applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe created a class of extremely efficient two-photon-absorbing materials, which enabled two-photon 3D microfabrication, now a global commercial technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe contributed to the development of organic electronic materials. In particular he created dopants that convert semiconductors to materials with substantial conductivities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Georgia Tech, Marder \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/592259\u0022\u003Eadvances materials science research and engineering\u003C\/a\u003E through \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/stami.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESTAMI \u0026ndash; the Center for the Science and Technology of Materials and Interfaces\u003C\/a\u003E. The center supports the activities of researchers across Georgia Tech to create the next generations of functional materials and interfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHumboldt Research Award recipients can spend up to one year in a research institution in Germany to collaborate on a project. Physicist \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www-sms1.physik.hu-berlin.de\/prof-dr-norbert-koch.html\u0022\u003ENorbert Koch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will host Marder at\u0026nbsp;the Department of Physics of Humboldt-Universit\u0026auml;t zu Berlin.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am gratified and humbled to receive this prestigious award,\u0026rdquo; Marder says. \u0026ldquo;It allows me to spend time working with Professor Koch and his group, with their state-of-the art instrumentation and unique expertise.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Berlin, Marder hopes\u0026nbsp;to develop new experiments to address electrical doping of organic materials and interfaces, which are key in\u0026nbsp;applications such as organic light-emitting diodes and photovoltaic materials and devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarder is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Optical Society of America, the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/585069\u0022\u003Ethe National Academy of Inventors\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Marder will be a visiting researcher at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAward recognizes Seth Marder\u0026rsquo;s entire research achievements to date.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Marder will be a visiting researcher at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin."}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-08-09 15:18:54","changed_gmt":"2018-08-09 15:36:30","author":"A. 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