Editing Ad Lagendijk

==CV==

[http://adlagendijk.com/cv_ad_2020_03_20.pdf Download CV as pdf file]

[http://adlagendijk.com/pub_ad_2020_03_20.pdf Download Publication list as pdf file]
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===Personal Details===
{|
|Last Name: ||Lagendijk
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|First Name:||Ad
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|Date of Birth: ||18-11-1947
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|Place of Birth:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Zwanenburg (Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands)
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===Education===
{|
|1954 - 1960 ||Openbare School 10, Badhoevedorp
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|1960 - 1965 ||Haarlemmermeer Lyceum, Badhoevedorp
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|1965 - 1968 ||Bachelor chemistry, University of Amsterdam (UvA)
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|1968 - 1970 ||Master Physical Chemistry, UvA
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|1970 - 1973&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  ||PhD student Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of the UvA
|}

===Academic degrees===
{|
|1968 || Bachelor chemistry, UvA
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|1970 || Master (doctoraal, with distinction) physical chemistry, UvA
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|1974&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  || PhD, physical chemistry, UvA
|}
===PhD thesis===
{|
|Title: || An ESR study of induced defects in StrTiO<sub>3</sub>
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|Advisor:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  || J. D. W. van Voorst
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|Date: || May 1974
|}
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==Employment history==
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===Regular===
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|1968 - 1970 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;||Practical course assistant, UvA
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|1970 - 1973 ||Faculty member (3-year contract), Lab. for Physical Chemistry, UvA
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|1973 - 1975 ||Postdoc Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (UIA), Wilrijk, Belgium
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|1975 - 1981 ||Tenured faculty member UIA
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|1981 - 1984 ||Tenured faculty member Natuurkundig Laboratorium UvA
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|1984 - 2012 ||Professor of physics at UvA
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|1987 - 1997 ||Head Department of Atomic Physics FOM-Instituut AMOLF, Amsterdam
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|2001 - 2006 ||Professor of physics at University of Twente
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|2006 - 2012 ||Group leader Photon Scattering at FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam
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|2012 -      ||Emeritus University Professor UvA
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|2012 -      ||Professor of physics at University of Twente
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|}
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===Visiting scientist, visiting professor===
{|
|1974&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Summer period at Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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|1979 || Summer at UCLA, invited by Prof. Ray Orbach
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|1980 || Six month period visiting group of Prof. Isaac F. Silvera at the Natuurkundig Laboratorium, UvA
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|2007 || Visiting Professor École Normale Supérieure in Paris (Lab. Pierre Aigrain)
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|2014 || Visiting professor Institut Langevin, ParisTech in Paris
|}
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==Honors==
{|
|1991 ||Physica Lezing prize (most important physics prize in The Netherlands)
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|1995 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|| Harvard Loeb lecturer, [https://www.physics.harvard.edu/loeblee2 info]
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|1996 - ||Distinguished University professor of the UvA
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|1997 - ||Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
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|1998 - ||Member of Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
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|2002 ||NWO Spinoza prize (most important science prize in the Netherlands)
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|2007 -  ||Fellow European Optical Society (EOS) 
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|2020  ||Landauer medal 2021, [https://etopim12.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5 info]
|-
|}

==Scientific accomplishments==
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===Long term senior collaborators===
*W. L. Vos
*A. P. Mosk
*B. A. van Tiggelen
*D. S. Wiersma
*G. H. Wegdam
*H. De Raedt
*R. Sprik
===Quality===
In the field of propagation of light in disordered media (experiment and theory) AL is a pioneer and world leader. This field has grown enormously gained importance due to its highly multidisciplinary character. AL played a major role in the growth of this field. His work has been highlighted several times in Physics Today and further acknowledged by the invitation to write the feature article of the Physics Today August 2009 issue, dedicated to the most important concept in the physics of disorder: Anderson Localization. In the following a selection will be made of the most important contributions.

*'''''Mutual transparency''''': We have very recently introduced the new concept of mutual extinction (EPL, '''130''', 34002 (2020) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/lagendijk2020_EPL_mutual_transparency.pdf pdf]), which occurs when more than one light wave is incident. Based on calculations of samples containing many scatterers we demonstrate that the total extinction of two incident waves is greatly enhanced, called mutual extinction, or greatly reduced, mutual transparency, by up to 100%.

*'''''Transverse localization''''': AL predicted a new form of localization of light: "Transverse localization of light" (Phys. Rev. Lett. '''62''', 47-50 (1989) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/89.01-1.pdf pdf]  ). His prediction was confirmed experimentally by Moti Segev  et al. (Nature '''446''', 52 (2007)) and highlighted in Physics Today, May 2007 issue.

*'''''Weak localization:''''' Group of AL was the first ever (Phys. Rev. Lett. '''55''', 2692-2695 (1985) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/85.01-1.pdf pdf]) to observe weak localization of light (enhanced back-scattering) - independently also observed by Prof. Georg Maret. The coherent backscattering of waves is an interference effect that survives in multiple scattering. This milestone has opened a whole new area of research and has stimulated many workers in different fields. After our pioneering work the observation of coherent back scattering has turned into an industry, with experiments performed with light waves, sound waves, microwaves, polaritons, and with cold gasses. AL was invited to write a column in Physics Today about his discovery.

*'''''Light slowed down:''''' AL group was the first to predict and to observe extreme slowing down of light in a disordered material (Phys. Rev. Lett. '''66''', 3132-3135 (1991) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/albada1991_PRL_ve.pdf pdf]). These results were highlighted in the Research and Discovery section of Physics Today, June 1991, p 17-19. At first our findings were met with scepsis and opposition, but five years later, this discovery has become part standard textbook material.

*'''''Light localized:''''' In Nature (Nature '''390''', 671-673 (1997) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/wiersma1997_Nature_localization_of_light.pdf pdf]) we published, in collaboration with a group in Florence, the observation of localization of light. Sajeev John wrote a News and Views article in that issue to highlight our results. (Nature '''390''' page 661-662 (1997).

*'''''Random lasers:''''' Group AL made decisive contributions to the field of random lasers. Even the term Random Lasers was coined by the group. (see Physics World, January 1990, page 33; We recently published the first paper on the determination of the spatial size of a mode in a random laser (Phys. Rev. Lett. '''98''', 143901 (2007) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PRL98-143901-3.pdf pdf]).

*'''''Density of states:''''' Group AL was the first to introduce the concept of local density of states (LDOS) in the field of photonic crystals, Europhys. Lett. '''35''', 265 (1996) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/96.05-1.pdf pdf]. With their theory they showed that a strong spatial variation in the lifetime of emitters could be expected, well before a photonic bandgap is achieved. Very recently the first finite-size scaling of the DOS in photonic crystals was reported by AL and coworkers (Phys. Rev. Lett. '''120''', 237402: 1-6(2018) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/prl120hasan2018finite-size_scaling_DOS_band_gap-3.pdf pdf]).

*'''''Speckle correlations:'''''  Group AL made major contributions to the observation of spatial and frequency correlations, including the first discovery of long-range correlations (Phys. Rev. Lett. '''64''', 2787-2790 (1990) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/deboer1990_PRL_long_range_cor.pdf pdf]).

*'''''Internal reflection:''''' AL invented the concept of internal reflection of diffuse waves (Phys. Lett. A '''136''', 81(1989) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/89.03_1-1.pdf pdf]).

*'''''Multifractality:'''''  The discovery of multifractality of Anderson localized sound wave was reported by the group of AL, in collaboration with groups from Manitoba (Canada) and from Grenoble. (Phys. Rev. Lett. '''103''', 155703 (2009) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/faez2009_PRL_multifractal.pdf pdf]).

*'''''Early work:''''' In 1975 AL started as a postdoc in Antwerp a new and successful research effort on the magnetic resonance of one-dimensional magnetic systems. He developed a new theory, predicted several new resonances, built new microwave cavities and discovered the resonances experimentally. He worked successfully on computer simulation of quantum systems with path integrals with Hans De Raedt. Together they were the first to solve a Fermion lattice model (acknowledged in Physics Today, Research and Discovery). In addition they made major contributions to the behavior of small polarons. After moving to Amsterdam, and switching to optics, group AL performed pioneering work on femto-second electron dynamics.

===Quantity===
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{|
| Number of papers: &nbsp; || > 400
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|Number of citations:&nbsp;&nbsp;||23818
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|h-index: ||&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 75	
|}
Numbers obtained from Google Scholar. Numbers from Web of Science slightly lower.

For publication list see public Google Scholar profile:
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8b7tdr0AAAAJ Public Google Scolar profile of AL]
</blockquote>

===Key papers===
#D.S. Wiersma, P. Bartolini, A. Lagendijk, and R. Righini, ''Localization of light in a disordered medium'', Nature '''390''' , 671(1997) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/wiersma1997_Nature_localization_of_light.pdf pdf]
#H. De Raedt, A. Lagendijk, and P. de Vries, ''Transverse localization of light'', Phys. Rev. Lett. '''62''', 47 (1989) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/89.01-1.pdf pdf]
#M.P. van Albada and A. Lagendijk, ''Observation of weak localization of light in a random medium'', Physical Rev. Lett. '''55''', 2692 (1985) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/85.01-1.pdf pdf]
#S.B. Hasan, A.P. Mosk, W.L. Vos, and A.Lagendijk, ''Finite-size scaling of the density of states in photonic band gap crystals'', Phys. Rev. Lett. '''120''', 237402: 1-6(2018) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/prl120hasan2018finite-size_scaling_DOS_band_gap-3.pdf pdf]
#A.P. Mosk, A. Lagendijk, G. Lerosey, and M. Fink, ''Controlling waves in space and time for imaging and focusing in complex media'', Nature Photon. '''6''', 283 (2012) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nphoton.2012.88-3.pdf pdf]
#A. Lagendijk, B. van Tiggelen, and D.S. Wiersma, ''Fifty years of Anderson localization'', Phys. Today '''62''', 24 (2009) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/lagendijk2009_PhysicsToday_50YearsAnderson_loc.pdf pdf]
#A. Lagendijk and B.A. van Tiggelen, ''Resonant multiple scattering of light'', Physics Rep. '''270''',143 (1996) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/96.04-1.pdf pdf]
#M.P. van Albada, B.A. van Tiggelen, A. Lagendijk, and A Tip, ''Speed of propagation of classical waves in strongly scattering media'', Physical Rev. Lett '''66''', 3132 (1991) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/albada1991_PRL_ve.pdf pdf]
#P. de Vries, D.V. van Coevorden, and A Lagendijk, ''Point scatterers for classical waves'', Rev. Mod. Phys. '''70''', 447 (1998) [https://nano-cops.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/98.03-1.pdf pdf]
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==Advised theses==
(UvA means University of Amsterdam and UT means University of Twente)
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|1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||	R. van Kemp
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| ||Title: || Magnetic resonance studies of the oxygen-vacancy complex and interstitial chromium in silicon
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| ||co-advisor: ||C. A. J. Ammerlaan
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||June 30, 1988, Amsterdam UvA.
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|2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||	M. P. van Exter 
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| || Title: ||Ultra-fast spectroscopy of vibrational excitations and surface plasmons
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| || Date of defense:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||September 29, 1988, Amsterdam, UvA 
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|3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: || 	M. J. H. Baggen
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| ||Title: || Vibrational dynamics of molecular dense phases at high pressures
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| || Date of defense:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||May 29, 1989, Amsterdam, UvA
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|4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||	J. W. J. Verschuur 
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| || Title: ||Ionization and dissociation of NO and H2 in strong radiation fields
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| || co-advisor: || H.B. van Linden van den Heuvell
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| || Date of defense: ||May 31, 1989, UvA, Amsterdam
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|5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: || 	M. Pont
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| || Title: ||The behavior of atomic hydrogen in superintense, high frequency laser fields
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| || co-advisor:|| M. Gavrila
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||February 28, 1990, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||P. de Vries 
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| || Title: ||Trottering through quantum physics
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| || co-advisor:|| H. de Raedt 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||May 7, 1991, Amsterdam, UvA
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|7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||M. B. van der Mark 
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| || Title: ||Propagation of light in disordered media: a search for Anderson localization
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||June 14, 1990, Amsterdam, UvA. 
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|8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||H. J. Bakker 
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| || Title: ||Time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy with picosecond infrared pulses
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||October 1, 1991, Amsterda, UvA. 

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|9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||P. C. M. Planken 
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| || Title: ||Generation and application of ultrashort infrared pulses 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||October 2, 1991, Amsterda, UvA.
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|10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||R. H. M. Groeneveld
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| || Title: ||Femtosecond spectroscopy on electrons and phonons in noble metals
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| || co-advisor:|| co-advisor: R. Sprik
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||June 3, 1992, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||B. A. van Tiggelen 
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| || Title: ||Multiple scattering and localization of light
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| || co-advisor:|| co-advisor: A. Tip
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||September 29, 1992, Amsterda, UvA.
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|12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||R. Kroon 
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| || Title: ||Picosecond spectroscopy on vibrational excitations and excitons in condensed matter
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| || co-advisor:|| R. Sprik
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||October 27, 1993, Amsterda, UvA.

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|13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||P. N. den Outer 
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| || Title: ||Multiple light scattering in random discrete media. 
Coherent backscattering and imaging
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||May 15, 1995, Amsterda, UvA.
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|14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||J. F. de Boer 
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| || Title: ||Optical fluctuations on the transmission and reflection of mesoscopic systems
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||September 20, 1995, Amsterda, UvA.
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|15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||M.J.P. Brugmans
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| || Title: ||Relaxation kinetics disordered dense phases
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||November 16, 1995, Amsterda, UvA.
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|16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||D. S. Wiersma 
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| || Title: ||Light in strongly scattering and amplifying random media 
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| ||co-advisor: ||M.P. van Albada
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||November 21, 1995, Amsterdam, UvA
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|17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||G. M. Lankhuijzen
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| || Title: ||Ionization dynamics of Rydberg atoms in electric fields
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| || co-advisor:||L. D. Noordam
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||March 14, 1997, Amsterda, UvA.
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|18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||D. V. van Coevorden 
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| || Title: ||Light propagation in ordered and disordered media
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| || co-advisor:||co-advisor: A. Tip
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||May 14, 1997, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||M. Kroon
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| || Title: ||Structure and formation of a gel of colloidal discs
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| || co-advisor:|| co-advisor G. H. Wegdam
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||September 16 1998, Amsterdam, UvA
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|20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||H. J. Kop
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| || Title: ||Time-resolved interferometry on metals and disordered systems
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| || co-advisor:||co-advisor R. Sprik
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||October 20, 1998, Amsterda, UvA.
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|21&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||	S. Woutersen
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| || Title: ||Femtosecond vibrational dynamics in hydrogen-bonded systems
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| || co-advisor:||  H. Bakker
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||June 1, 1999, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||M. Megens 
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| || Title: ||Structure and fluorescence of photonic colloidal crystals
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| || co-advisor:|| co-advisor W. L. Vos
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||November 9, 1999, Amsterda, UvA.
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|23&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||F. J. P. Schuurmans 
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| || Title: ||Light in complex dielectrics
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||December 2, 1999, Amsterda, UvA. 
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|24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||D .O. Riese 
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| || Title: ||Fluid dynamics in charge stabilized colloidal suspensions
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| || co-advisor:||G. H. Wegdam
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||December 4, 2000, Amsterdam, UvA
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|25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||G. van Soest
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| || Title: ||Experiments on random lasers 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||December 4, 2001, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||J. Gómez Rivas
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| || Title: ||Light in strongly scattering semiconductors; diffuse transport and Anderson localization 
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| || co-advisor:||R. Sprik
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||April 16, 2002, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||W. V. Meyer
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| || Title: ||Volume and interface studies of complex liquid media
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| || co-advisor:||G.H. Wegdam
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||December 13, 2002, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||M. Wubs
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| || Title: ||Quantum optics and multiple scattering in dielectrics 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||June 11, 2003, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||A. F. Koenderink
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| || Title: ||Emission and transport of light in photonic crystals 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||June 27, 2003, Amsterdam, UvA.
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| || co-advisor:||W. L. Vos
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|30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||B. P. J. Bret
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| || Title: ||Multiple light scattering in porous gallium phosphide 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||July 14, 2005, Enschede, UT.
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|31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||T. Savels
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| || Title: ||Scattering lasers 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||February 14, 2007, Amsterdam, UvA.
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| || co-advisor:||A. P. Mosk
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|32&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||K. L. van der Molen
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| || Title: ||Experiments on scattering lasers from Mie to random 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||April 25, 2007, Enschede, UT.
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|33&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||I. M. Vellekoop
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| || Title: || Controlling the propagation of light in disordered scattering media  
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||April 24, 2008, Enschede, UT.
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| || co-advisor:||A. P. Mosk
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|34&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||B. C. Kaas
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| || Title: || Multiple scattering of waves in anisotropic random media  
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||September 25, 2008, Enschede, UT.
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| || co-advisor:||B. A. van Tiggelen
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|35&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||E. G. van Putten
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| || Title: ||Disorder-Enhanced Imaging with Spatially Controlled Light 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||October 28, 2011, Enschede, UT.
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| || co-advisor:||A. P. Mosk
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|36&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||S. Faez
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| || Title: ||Universal wave phenomena in multiple scattering media  
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||September 16, 2011, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|37&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||P. S. Scalia
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| || Title: ||Optical noise and mesoscopic correlations in random media 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||November 2, 2011, Amsterdam, UvA.
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| || co-advisor:||O. L. Muskens
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|38&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||R. G. S. El-Dardiry
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| || Title: ||Sources and gain in photonic random media 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||June 20, 2012, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|39&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||B. Gjonaj
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| || Title: ||Digital plasmonics: from concept to microscopy 
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||July 4, 2012, Amsterdam, UvA.
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|40&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||J. Aulbach
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| || Title: ||Spatiotemporal control of light in trbid media
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||September 20, 2013, Enschede, UT.
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|41&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || Defendant: ||M.L. Meretska
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| || Title: ||Taming a white LED
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| || Date of defense: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ||February 23, 2018, Enschede, UT.
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| ||Advisors: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; || W.L. Vos. Co-advisor: AL.
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==Services to scientific community==
<blockquote>
===Editor===
{|
|1990 - 2001 ||Editor Physics Letters A
|}
===International===
<blockquote>
====Organizer====

Together with Bart van Tiggelen and Diederik Wiersma AL organized the conference "Fifty years of Anderson Localization" in Paris in December 2008. -Speakers included Professors Thouless, Wölfle, John, and Inguscio.

====Committee member ====
AL has been a member of numerous organizations, program committees of conferences, summer-schools and scientific boards (a.o. ETOPIM, OSA MetaMaterials, GDR/CNRS IMCODE, GDR/CNRS MesoImage)

FWO (Belgian Science Foundation) member evaluation committee (for three years)
</blockquote>

===National===
*Board of the Dutch Physical Society (for 4 years NNV)
*Organizer Spring meeting of the Dutch Physical Society (NNV, 3 times)
* Member overseeing Board Condensed Matter division of the Dutch physics foundation FOM (for 5 years)
* Member of executive board of FOM (most influential position in Dutch physics, for 5 years)
*Organizer of the main Dutch condensed matter meeting of FOM (Veldhoven) (2 times)
* Member (often chairman) of at least six nomination committees for hiring new professors
* Member overseeing board of FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen (for 2 years)
* Director Van der Waals-Zeeman Instituut of Univ. of Amsterdam (for 1 year)
*Member of the executive physics council Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW, for 3 years)
*Member of KNAW overseeing board for physics (for 5 years)
*Member of overseeing board of FOM-institute AMOLF (4 years)
*Chairman of Lorentz-medal committee Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (2002)
*Member of Lorentz-medal committee Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences KNAW (2010)
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==Science Survival==
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===Book===
On the basis of experiences with junior scientists at the UvA, at UT and at AMOLF, in continous discussion with the senior group leaders AL has written a book:
''Survival Guide for Scientists''

Amsterdam University Press, 2008, 215 pages,

It is a how-to advice on essential topics such as the foundations for writing scientific texts, presenting data and research information, and the writing and reading of collegial e-mails. Each section is organized by a collection of short rules, outlined and numbered in a logical order as self-explanatory pieces of information—allowing the reader the freedom to study any number of them in any desired order. These concrete guidelines, supplemented by an extensive index, makes it a unique book.
Over 4000 copies sold

===Lectures===
As a result of the book AL is regularly asked to give presentations on survival in science. Invitations of this kind incldued the Rotterdam Eye Hospital reopening, HBO-students in Groningen, Wetsus in Leeuwarden, medical students in Leiden, and "Verslavingszorg" students in Nijmegen. 

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==Outreach==
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===Present===
AL regulary participates in public scientific discussions. 
===Past===
*AL has been until 2004 a bi-weekly columnist for the newspaper Volkskrant for almost 11 years
* In 2005 he was asked to write an essay for the journal Nature, about any subject he wanted. He decided to write a controversial essay, entitled "Pushing for Power" (Nature 438, 429 (2005)), criticizing the macho-culture of natural science.
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