PERSONALDATAANDSHORTBIOGRAPHYDiederikSyboltWiersmaBorninUtrecht(TheNetherlands)on25stDecember1967Married,2children.Dutchcitizenship.

LanguagesDutch,English,Italian,German,French.AcademicQualifications31August1991Graduation(master's)CumLaudeattheUniv.ofAmsterdam,FacultyofPhysics21November1995PhDexperimentalphysics,FOM-InstituteforAtomicandMolecularPhysics.EmploymentanddutiesJan1996–Nov1999MarieCurieresearchfellowattheLENSinFlorenceDec1999–Dec2002ResearcherNationalInstituteforthePhysicsofMatter(INFM,Genova)Dec2002–Dec2006Assistantresearchdirector(primoricercatore)CNR-INOJan2007–Nov2013Researchdirector(direttorediricerca)CNR-INO25-6-2010Qualificationforfullprofessor(idoneitàprofessoreordinario)Univ.RomaIII2011–todayHeadMicroandnanophotonicsEuropeanLaboratoryforNon-linearSpectroscopyNov2013–todayFullprofessor(professoreordinario),departmentofphysics,UniversityofFlorence.Co-founderoftheNanophotonicsEuropeassociation(since2008)DirectoroftheEuropeanLaboratoryforNon-linearSpectroscopy(LENS)inFlorence(2010-2013)Italianrepresentativeinthescientificpanelofphysics,chemistry,andmathematicsofScienceEuropeChairoftheERCevaluationpanelofconsolidatorgrants(panelPE22015-2020)PanelmemberevaluationofMarieSkłodowska-CurieInnovativeTrainingNetworks(2016-2021)Directorof14internationalconferencesandschools(CLEO,SPIE,Varenna,Erice,Cargese,Trieste).InternationalrecognitionanddiffusionTotalnumberofscientificcitations(ISIWebofKnowledge,2016):7390Averagenumberofcitationsperpaper:46H-index(asdefinedbyWebofScience):42(age48).Morethan100invitedkeynoteandplenarypresentationsatinternationalconferences.

InternationalAwards• UgoCampisanoawardoftheNationalInstituteforthePhysicsofMatter(INFM)(2004)• NationalAcademyofSciencesaward“PremioTartufari”forphysics(GiorgioNapolitano)(2014)• EnricoFermiawardforphysics(ItalianPhysicalSociety)(2015).

Since2002coordinatedmorethan10Europeanandnationalprojects(academicandindustrial)DeputycoordinatoroftheEuropeannetworkofexcellenceonnanophotonics(2005-2010)AdvancedgrantoftheEuropeanResearchCouncil(ERC),NanophotonicMicroRobotics(2012-2017)

Editor/member editorial board The Physical Review A (2009-2014), MDPI journal Crystals (Basel)(2010-today),EuropeanPhysicalJournalEPJ–plus(2012-today),AdvancedOpticalMaterials(WILEY,2013-today),EuroPhysicsLetters(2014-today).Top10publicationsD.S.Wiersma,P.Batolini,A.Lagendijk,andR.Righini,Nature390,671(1997)(coverstory).D.S.WiersmaandS.Cavalieri,Atemperature-tunablerandomlaser,Nature414,708(2001).P.Barthelemy,M.Ghulinyan,Z.Gaburro,C.Tonineli,L.Pavesi,andD.S.Wiersma,Opticalswitchingbycapillarycondensation,NaturePhotonics1,172(2007).S.Gottardo,R.Sapienza,P.D.García,A.Blanco,D.S.Wiersma,andC.López,Resonance-drivenrandomlasing,NaturePhotonics2,429(2008)(coverstory).P.Barthelemy,J.Bertolotti,andD.S.Wiersma,ALévyflightforlight,Nature453,427(2008)(cover).D.S.Wiersma,ThePhysicsandApplicationsofRandomLasers,NaturePhysics4,359(2008).L.Mahler,A.Tredicucci,F.Beltram,C.Walther,J.Faist,H.E.Beere,D.A.Ritchie,D.S.Wiersma,Quasi-periodicdistributedfeedbacklaser,NaturePhotonics4,165(2010).KevinVynck,MatteoBurresi,FrancescoRiboli,andDiederikS.Wiersma,Photonmanagementintwo-dimensionaldisorderedmedia,NatureMaterials11,1017(2012).D.S.Wiersma,DisorderedPhotonics,NaturePhotonics7,188(2013)(coverstory).F.Riboli,Caselli,Vignolini,Intonti,Vynck,Barthelemy,Gerardino,Balet,Li,Fiore,Gurioli,andWiersma,Engineeringoflightconfinementinstronglyscatteringdisorderedmedia,NatureMat.13,720(2014).Palagi, Mark, Reigh, Melde, Qiu, Zeng, Parmeggiani, Martella, Castillo, Kapernaum, Giesselmann,Wiersma,Lauga,Fischer,Structuredlightenablesbiomimeticswimming,NatureMat.(2016).Invited“NewsandViews”papersandcommentaries

• D.S.Wiersma,M.P.vanAlbada,andA.Lagendijk,RandomLaser,Nature373,203(1995).• D.S.Wiersma,LaserPhysics:Thesmallestrandomlaser,Nature406,132(2000).• D.S.Wiersma,Controllingphotonswithlight,NaturePhotonics2,136(2008).• D.S.Wiersma,Optics:Lightreinedin,Nature452,942(2008).• D.S.Wiersma,RandomLasersExplained,NaturePhotonics3,246(2009).• D.S.Wiersma,RandomQuantumNetworks,Science327,1333(2010).• D.S.Wiersma,DisorderedOptics:Resonantdust,NaturePhotonics4,274(2010).• D.S.Wiersma,Lighttransport:breakingreciprocity,NaturePhot.6,506(2012).

Co-inventoron6internationalpatentsinmicrofluidics,photonics,androbotics(PCTandWO).Figure1:selectedcoverstories