Han Zuilhof, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Han Zuilhof

Dutch chemist

Date of Birth: 21-May-1965

Place of Birth: Sassenheim, South Holland, Netherlands

Profession: chemist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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 300 research papers, 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.
In 2016, he was appointed Senior Editor of Langmuir.
And in 2018, Han Zuilhof was elected as a "Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his outstanding contributions to chemical science.He is a founder (2011) of a spin-off company Surfix, and co-founder (2013) of another, Biomarque.