Biographical Sketch

EDUCATION：

1967-1972    High School Appingedam

1972-1978    State University Groningen, Master degree in Chemistry, Organic Chemistry.

1978-1982    State University Groningen, PhD degree in Organic Chemistry, cum laude,

advisor: prof. dr. H. Wynberg

EXPERIENCE：

1977-1982    State University Groningen, University assistant of prof. dr. H. Wynberg      

1982-1989   Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Research scientist Molecular Materials

1989-1992    DSM Research Geleen, Head of department "New Materials"

1991-        Eindhoven University of Technology, Full professor of Organic Chemistry

1995 -       Radboud University Nijmegen,Adjunct professor of Macromolecular Chemistry

2004 -       Eindhoven University of Technology, Distinguished University Professor of Molecular Sciences

2006-         University of California, Santa Barbara, Distinguished Visiting Professor

AWARDS：

l        Golden Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (1993)

l        Arthur K. Doolittle Award of the ACS-division PMSE (1995)

l        Silver Medal of the MacroGroup UK of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000)

l        SPINOZA-Award of the Dutch Science Foundation NWO (2001)

l        ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry (2006)

pROfessional memberships and editorial boards:

l        Scientific Director of the Institute of Complex Molecular Systems of the Eindhoven University of Technology (since 2008)

l        Chairman of the board of the Chemical Science section of the Dutch National Science Foundation (CW-NWO) (Since 2001)

l        Member of the Dutch “Regiegroep Chemie” – the National Board for chemistry to advise the government (Since 2006)

l        Founder of SyMO-Chem B.V.; a contract company in Eindhoven (Since 2001)

l        Co-founder of Suprapolix B.V.; a polymer start-up company in Eindhoven (Since 2005).

l        Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Royal DSM (since 2006).

l        Member of the Royal Dutch Society of Science (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) (Since 1997).

l        Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW) (Since 2003).

l        Editor of Journal of Polymer Science A, Polymer Chemistry (since 2005)

Member of the international advisory and/or editorial board of 10 Journals, including:

l        Journal of the Chemical Society – Materials Chemistry (since 2000)

l        Advanced Materials (since 1992)

l        Chemical Communications (since 2003)

l        Angewandte Chemie (since 1998)

l        Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan (since 2004)

Research INTERESTS

l        Non-covalent synthesis of complex molecular systems

l        Dendrimers and novel macromolecular architectures

l        Supramolecular chemistry and self-assembled functional materials

l        Chemical Biology

l        Stereochemistry and chirality