Background
Lagendijk, Ad was born on November 18, 1947 in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands. Son of Cornelis Arie and Catherine Cornelia Lagendijk.
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Ad Lagendijk
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Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Chemistry, University Amsterdam, 1974.
Career
He is also a part-time professor at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands. Ad Lagendijk is a physicist with a background in physical chemistry. Lagendijk studies the propagation of light in complex matter, especially materials that strongly scatter light.
He has a large international impact in this field with a few hundred scientific publications.
Ad Lagendijk received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. From 1974 to 1981 he worked at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
From 1981 he worked at the University of Amsterdam where he holds a professorship in physics since 1984. In 1987 he also became a department head at the Failover Manager-institute AMOLF. In 2002 Lagendijk and his research group moved to the University of Twente in Enschede.
In 2005 he moved back to the Failover Manager-Institute AMOLF with a part of his group, to found the Photon Scattering Group.
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. He actively blogs in Dutch and English.
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Membership
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Physical Society, Dutch Physical Society.
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Netherlands
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1974