Floris Rutjes's Biography

Floris Rutjes, Professor, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University

Floris Rutjes received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1993 with profs. W.N. Speckamp and H. Hiemstra and conducted postdoctoral research with prof. K.C. Nicolaou at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA. In 1999 he became full professor in organic synthesis at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He was awarded amongst others the Gold Medal of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV, 2002), the AstraZeneca Award for Research in Organic Chemistry (2003), Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of the Netherlands (2008) and Chemistry Europe Fellow (2022). He is elected member of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering and the Academia Europaea. Currently, he is director of the Institute for Molecules and Materials at Radboud University and vice-president of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS).