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. He obtained an MSc in chemistry and MA in philosophy from Leiden University (both highest honors). After a PhD in organic chemistry (Leiden University, 1994; highest honors), and postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester, NY, and Columbia University, he joined the faculty at Wageningen University. He has been a professor of organic chemistry since 2007. He has written over 340 research papers,[1] and more than 10 patents. He is a distinguished adjunct professor of chemical engineering at the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and a perennial distinguished 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, Advanced Materials Interfaces and Applied Surface Science and was a senior editor of Langmuir from 2016 to 2020.[2] In 2018, Han Zuilhof was elected as a "Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his outstanding contributions to chemical science,[3][4] and in 2021 was awarded the Robert Robinson Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry by the RSC for contributions to click chemistry. He is also the founder (2011) of a spin-off company, Surfix.[5]

Han Zuilhof
Han Zuilhof, Chair of Organic Chemistry, Wageningen University, 2015
Born	(1965-05-21) May 21, 1965 Sassenheim
Nationality	Dutch
Scientific career
Fields	Organic Chemistry, Bionanotechnology, Surface Science
Institutions	Wageningen University AFSG

Among his recent accomplishments are the discovery of tiara[5]arenes,[6] the first intrinsically chiral click reaction (no chiral auxiliary or catalyst needed),[7] and the synthesis and structure elucidation of SOF4-based SuFEx-derived polymers.[8]