Ad Lagendijk

He has a large international impact in this field with a few hundred scientific publications.

In 1998 he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[1] In 2002 Lagendijk and his research group moved to the University of Twente in Enschede.

Lagendijk gained fame outside physics as the author of columns in a national newspaper and as the author of the Survival Guide for Scientists, a book with advice in the areas of communication and presentation, intended for junior scientists.

Professor Ad Lagendijk received the Spinoza Prize of 2002[2] for his research on the propagation of light in strongly scattering media, a field that according to the jury, he defined himself and brought to maturity both experimentally and theoretically through his research.