Gerrit van der Laan

Gerrit van der Laan is a condensed-matter physicist with research interests in magnetic materials, topological insulators, and actinides. He received the Agilent Technologies Europhysics Award in 2000 for pioneering studies of x-ray magnetic dichroism and work leading to advances in the fields of electronic, electrical, and materials engineering. He is the Senior Research Scientist at the Diamond Light Source in the UK and heads the Magnetic Spectroscopy Group.