Dirk van der Marel

Dirk van der Marel has been a professor of physics in the Condensed Matter Physics Department at the University of Geneva since 2003. He received his Ph.D. in 1985 at the University of Groningen. After postdoctoral research at Philips Research Laboratories, he went on to become an assistant professor at the University of Delft and, in 1992, a full professor at the University of Groningen. He has been a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart and at Stanford University. His research interests include optical spectroscopy and electronic properties of strongly correlated electron systems. In 2016, he received the APS Frank Isakson prize for optical effects in solids.