Robin Marjoribanks

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Robin Stewart Marjoribanks (August 8, 1956) B.Sc. M.Sc. M.S. Ph.D. is an associate professor of physics at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, ON, Canada.

1 Biography
2 Academia and research
3 External links
4 Notable Publications

[edit] Biography

Robin Marjoribanks was born to Robert Marjoribanks and Nancy Pitman. He has two siblings, an older brother - Duncan Cameron Marjoribanks, a director of film animation, and a younger sister - Catherine Jane Marjoribanks, an independent book editor. He started his academic career at the University of Toronto, earning an undergraduate degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1978. He continued his education at the same Physics department, transferred to the United States and received a second Masters degree in Engineering in 1981 and a Doctorate degree from the University of Rochester in 1988 studying high-energy lasers.

[edit] Academia and research

Professor Marjoribanks teaches a multitude of subjects at the University of Toronto in the department of Physics. He specializes in plasma and optical research and is interested in a range of topics involving the relation of very intense light and matter. In the interaction between the two, each may end up changed, in subtle or in striking ways. It is the relationships within matter, and the relationships of light to itself, which change when the two accommodate each other. Other fields of research include atoms in ultra-intense optical fields, plasma physics and spectroscopy at extreme energy-densities, science of ultrafast laser material processing, and the development of extreme-ultraviolet and soft x-ray sources.