Education Experience
| 1983-1988 | B.Sc. Chemistry | Leiden University |
| 1984-1986 | M.S. Western philosophy | Leiden University |
| 1990-1994 | Ph. D. Organic Chemistry | Leiden University |
Professional Experience
| 2016- | Distinguished Perennial Guest Professor | Tianjin University |
| 1996-1997 | NWO Talent Postdoc | Columbia University |
| 1997-2006 | Assistant and Associate Professor | Wageningen University |
| 2007- | Personal Chair in Organic Chemistry | Wageningen University |
| 2008-2016 | Chair of Organic Chemistry | Wageningen University |
| 2011-2016 | Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Chemical and Ma | King Abdulaziz University |
Research Area
Honors and Awards
| 2014 – present: Perennial Distinguished Guest Professor, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. |
| 2013 – 2014: Joseph Meyerhoff Visiting Professor, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel. |
| 2011 – present: Distinguished Adjunct Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. |
| Spring 2007:Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. |
| Oct. 2005: Visiting Professor to Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China. |
| Summer 2003: Visiting Fellow to the National Canadian Nanotechnology Institute, Ottawa, Canada. |
| Fall 2002: Emerson Visiting Research Fellow at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. |
| 1994 – 1995: Postdoctoral Talent Fellowship (NWO). |
| 1994: L. J. Oosterhoff Award (L. J. Oosterhoff Fund, administered by Leiden University). |
| 1988 – 1989: Netherlands Ramsay Memorial Fellowship (Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences). |
Patents
| Patents: 10 (since 2004), 9 of which have been sold to 6 different companies (ranging from SMEs to multinationals). |
Highlighted Publications
| Number of publications in international refereed scientific journals according to WoS: 290 |