Ad Lagendijk

Ad Lagendijk ( * 1947 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch physicist.

Lagendijk studied physical chemistry at the University of Amsterdam ( completion 1970) and there was in 1974 a PhD (An ESR study of defects induced in SrTiO3 ). From 1973 he worked at the University of Antwerp and from 1981 at the University of Amsterdam, where he was professor of physics in 1984. 1987 to 1996 he was Head of Atomic and Laser Physics at the AMOLF Institute in Amsterdam ( an Institute of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, FOM, the Dutch research organization NWO). Since 2002 he is professor at the University of Twente and also part-time professor at the University of Amsterdam.

He leads the group photon scattering at AMOLF in Amsterdam and the group Complex Photonic Systems at the University of Twente.

He is known for research on light propagation in strongly scattering media. In 1985, he watched with Does P. van Albada Weak localization and coherent backscattering ( which is higher by a factor of two in the direction opposite to the direction of incidence than in any other direction ) of light in disordered media (such as commercial white color of titanium oxide particles). . they discovered in 1991, a slowdown of light in scattering in strongly scattering media determined.

2012 succeeded his group in Twente, the reconstruction of an image by opaque materials. The method is also developing novel microscopes are used with applications in nanotechnology.

In 1995 he was Loeb Lecturer at Harvard University. In 2002 he received the Spinoza prize, the highest Dutch science award. In 1998 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society ( 1997).

1991 to 2001 he was editor of Physics Letters A. He writes columns for the newspaper De Volkskrant. He has also written a Survival Guide for Scientists.

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