Title:The non-covalent synthesis of supramolecular systems

Speaker:Prof. dr. Egbert Willem Meijer

Time:2008.11.12  10:00am

Address:Main Auditorium of  ICCAS

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：

Golden Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (1993)

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

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

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

ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry (2006)

Professional memberships and editorial boards:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Advanced Materials (since 1992)

Chemical Communications (since 2003)

Angewandte Chemie (since 1998)

Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan (since 2004)

Research INTERESTS

Non-covalent synthesis of complex molecular systems

Dendrimers and novel macromolecular architectures

Supramolecular chemistry and self-assembled functional materials

Chemical Biology

Stereochemistry and chirality