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Faculteit Scheikundige Technologie
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Eindhoven University of Technology Chemical Engineering Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry PO Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven Tel: +31-(0)40-2473101 Fax: +31-(0)40-2474706 Email: e.w.meijer@tue.nl |
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Biography
Professor E.W. “Bert” Meijer
Bert Meijer is Distinguished University Professor in the Molecular Sciences and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Eindhoven, the Netherlands). After a PhD in 1982 from the University of Groningen (Organic Chemistry with Hans Wynberg) and a 10-year career in industry (Philips and DSM) he became head of the Molecular Science & Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research is focused on supramolecular chemistry, functional organic materials, chemical biology and stereochemistry.
Bert Meijer (born in Groningen, the Netherlands in 1955)
received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry in 1978 at the University of
Groningen. From the same university he obtained his PhD degree cum laude in
1982. He performed his PhD research in the field of organic chemistry with a
study on chemiluminescence of 1,2-dioxetanes under the supervision of professor
Hans Wynberg. Bert Meijer started his career at Philips Research Laboratories in
Eindhoven (1982-1989), where he was active as research chemist in the field of
functional organic materials, including (semi)- conducting polymers. From 1989
till 1992 he was head of the department “New Materials” at DSM Research in
Geleen, the Netherlands. In 1992, Bert Meijer started as professor in Organic
Chemistry in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the
Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2002 he was appointed also as professor
in the newly established Department of Biomedical Engineering in Eindhoven. From
2004, he is appointed as Distinguished University Professor of Molecular
Sciences at his University. More than 40 students from his group received their
PhD degree. From 1995 Bert Meijer is also adjunct professor in Macromolecular
Chemistry at the Nijmegen University. He was a visiting professor at the
University of Leuven, Belgium (1995), the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana (1998) and the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
(2003). While from 2006 onwards, he is a distinguished visiting professor at the
University of California in Santa Barbara. From the research activities in the
group of Bert Meijer, two companies are started. SyMO-Chem is a professional
research contract company founded in 2000, while SupraPolix is started in 2003
and focuses on supramolecular polymers. Since 2006, he is chairman of the
External Scientific Board of Royal DSM. Research interests Bert Meijer’s main
research interests are the design, synthesis, characterization, and possible
applications of supramolecular architectures, with special emphasis on
chirality, dendrimers, π-conjugated oligomers and polymers, and hydrogen bonding
architectures, and their use in functional materials and biomedical
applications. Awards and professional memberships Bert Meijer’s contributions to
science are recognized with the Golden Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society
in 1993, the Arthur K. Doolittle award of the American Chemical Society in 1995
and the Silver Medal of the MacroGroup UK of the Royal Society of Chemistry in
2000. In 2001, he was awarded with the prestigious SPINOZA-Award of the Dutch
Science Foundation NWO. In 2006 he received the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry.
Bert Meijer is member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
(since 1997) and in 2003 he was elected as member of the Royal Dutch Academy of
Art and Sciences. Bert Meijer is member of many editorial advisory boards,
including Chemical Communications and Angewandte Chemie. Since 2005 he is Editor
of Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry.
Personal key publications
P. Jonkheijm, P.P.A.M. van der Schoot, A.P.H.J. Schenning, E.W. Meijer, Probing the solvent-assisted nucleation pathway in chemical self-assembly, Science, 313, 80-83, (2006)P. Jonkheijm, F.J.M. Hoeben, R. Kleppinger, J. van Herrikhuyzen, A.P.H.J. Schenning, E.W. Meijer, The transfer of pi-conjugated columnar stacks from solution to surfaces, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125(51), 15941-15950, (2003)
J.H.K.K. Hirschberg, L. Brunsveld, A. Ramzi, J.A.J.M. Vekemans, R.P. Sijbesma, E.W. Meijer, Helical self-assembled polymers from cooperative stacking of hydrogen-bonded pairs, Nature, 407(6801), 167-170, (2000)
R.P. Sijbesma, F.H. Beijer, L. Brunsveld, B.J.B. Folmer, J.H.K.K. Hirschberg, R.F.M. Lange, J.K.L. Lowe, E.W. Meijer, Reversible polymers formed from self-complementary monomers using quadruple hydrogen bonding, Science, 278(5343), 1601-1604, (1997)
J.C.M. van Hest, D.A.P. Delnoye, M.W.P.L. Baars, M.H.P. van Genderen, E.W. Meijer, Polystyrene dendrimer amphiphilic block-copolymers with a generation dependent aggregation, Science, 268(5217), 1592-1595, (1995)