Seth R. Marder is an American physical chemist best known for his development of the quantum mechanical foundations of nonlinear electro-optics in organic dyes and materials.
Marder obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and doctorate from Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, after which he was a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford from 1985-1987.
He then moved to work on the technical staff of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1987–1998, where he was awarded the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in 1993.
[2][3] Marder serves as the chair of the editorial board of the academic journal Materials Horizons.
He also serves as the director of CU Boulder's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute.