Han Zuilhof

Han Zuilhof (born 1965) holds the chair of organic chemistry at Wageningen University. His interests focus on surface-bound (bio-)organic chemistry and bionanotechnology.

Zuilhof obtained an MSc in chemistry and MA in philosophy from Leiden University. After a PhD in organic chemistry (Leiden University, 1994) and postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester and Columbia University, he joined the faculty at Wageningen University. He has been a professor of organic chemistry since 2007. He is an adjunct professor of chemical engineering at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and a perennial guest professor of molecular science and medicinal chemistry at the school of pharmaceutical science and technology (SPST) at Tianjin University, China.

He serves/served on the editorial advisory boards of ''Langmuir'', [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%292196-7350 ''Advanced Materials Interfaces''] and ''Applied Surface Science'' and was a senior editor of ''Langmuir'' from 2016 to 2020. In 2021, as part of a team led by Barry Sharpless, he shared the Robert Robinson Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry for contributions to click chemistry. He is also the founder (2011) of a spin-off company, Surfix.

Among his recent accomplishments are the discovery of tiara[5]arenes, the first intrinsically chiral click reaction (no chiral auxiliary or catalyst needed), and the synthesis and structure elucidation of SOF4-based SuFEx-derived polymers. Provided by Wikipedia