Han Zuilhof's Biography

Han Zuilhof, Professor, Wageningen University

Han Zuilhof is the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Wageningen University. His interests focus on surface-bound (bio-)organic chemistry and bionanotechnology.
He obtained both an MSc in Chemistry and an MA in Philosophy. After a Ph.D. in 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 > 240 research papers, is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and a Perennial Distinguished Guest Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Tianjin University, China, where he's also recently received a National 1000 Talents Award.
He serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Langmuir, Advanced Materials Interfaces and Applied Surface Science, is a co-founder of a spin-off company Surfix, and loves watching cloudless night skies.