Diederik Wiersma

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Diederik Sybolt Wiersma (born December 25, 1967 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch physicist.

Wiersma received his diploma in physics from the University of Amsterdam in 1991 and received his doctorate there in 1995. He is a professor at the University of Florence and at the European Laboratory of Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS) there, where he leads research in micro- and nanophotonics. He was also the director of LENS. Since 2016 he has been President of INRiM, the national institute for metrological research in Italy.

He researches the basic optical properties of materials in micro- and nanophotonics (disordered, quasi-crystalline or crystalline structures) and, among other things, dealt with photonic crystals and lasers with disordered materials (random laser, random laser) and the application of nanophotonics in the Fluidics, the efficient use of solar energy (in a project that is also co-financed by the Italian electricity company ENI), for light sources and in microrobotics.

Wiersma was deputy coordinator of the European cluster of excellence for nanophotonics Phoremost and co-founder of the Nanophotonics Europe Association. He is also part of the European Cluster of Excellence Nano photonics for energy efficiency .

He received an Advanced Grant from the ERC for research into photonics and microrobotics. In 2004 he received the Ugo Campsiano Prize of the Italian National Institute for Physics of Matter (INFM) for his work on the random laser and in 2015 he received the Premio Enrico Fermi .

Wiersma led several courses at the international physics summer schools named after Ettore Majorana in Sicily and in 2009 the international Enrico Fermi School of Physics in Varenna. He is on the editorial board of the European Physical Journal and Physical Review A.

Fonts (selection)

  • The physics and applications of random lasers, Nature Photonics, Volume 4, 2008, SS 359-367
  • Laser physics: Random lasers explained?, Nature Photonics, Volume 3, 2009, pp. 246–248
  • Disordered Photonics, Nature Photonics, Volume 7, 2013, pp. 188-196
  • Optical physics: Clear directions for random lasers, Nature, Volume 539, 2016, pp. 360-361

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SURNAME Wiersma, Diederik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiersma, Diederik Sybolt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht