Seth R. Marder is the Georgia Power Chair of Energy Efficiency and Regents’ Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and engineering (courtesy) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers with over 28,500 citations, and has edited several proceedings and books. Among his recognitions and awards, Marder was the 1993 recipient of the NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Lew Allen Award for outstanding research by a scientist in the early part of his career, a recipient of an NSF Special Creativity Award, the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Optical Society of America, SPIE, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society. Among his advisory roles he was the Chair of the Materials and Chemistry Subcommittee of the Department of Commerce’s Emerging Technologies and Research Advisory Committee. He holds over 30 patents, many of which have been licensed and form the basis for three start-up companies he co-founded, two of which have been sold to a Fortune 500 Company.