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Personal
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Born:
August 3, 1943; Westmaas; The Netherlands
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Education |
Leiden University, The Netherlands
1964: B.Sc. in chemistry
1966: M.Sc. in inorganic chemistry (cum laude)
1968: Ph.D. in chemistry (cum laude)
Thesis: "Methyl cyanide as a ligand"
Thesis advisor: Dr. W.L. Groeneveld
Thesis supervisor: Dr. E.W. Gorter |
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Professional |
Leiden
University
1964-1966: junior instructor inorganic chemistry
1966-1968: instructor inorganic chemistry
1968-1972: postdoctoral instructor coordination chemistry
Delft University of Technology
(January 1, 1973 - November 1, 1979)
"Lector" (Reader) in inorganic and physical chemistry
Cambridge University: fall semester 1993: visiting
professor
Université Louvain la Neuve: Spring
semester 2002: visiting professor
Strasbourg, Université
Louis Pasteur: Academic year 2004-5: visiting professor
Grinnell College, Iowa: Spring 2006, visiting professor
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Research
interests |
- Coordination chemistry of transition-metal ions
- Bioinorganic chemistry (active-site structure and mechanism;
models for metalloproteins; metal-DNA interactions)
- Applications of coordination chemistry in catalysis, medicine,
ion-exchange, surface chemistry
- Extended (magnetic and electric) interactions in coordination
compounds and magnetic materials (dimers, clusters, chains)
- Molecular recognition and intermolecular interactions (catalysis;
biomacromolecules)
- Professional societies and Major Honors
- Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (1962-present)
- American Chemical Society and Inorganic Chemistry Division
(1981-present)
- International Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
(1995-present)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1989-present)
- Max Planck Research Award Bioinorganic Chemistry (Bonn,
1992)
- Elected member Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1996)
- Elected member Finnish Academy of Sciences (1997)
- Elected Honorary Member Royal Netherlands Chemical Society
(2003)
- Elected member Academia Europaea (2004)
- Listed by ISI as one of the 250 highest cited chemist worldwide
(since 2003)
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Publications |
over
1000 research publications in refereed journals, patents and books
(1965-present)
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Supervised
students |
- Msc theses: over 200
- PhD theses: over 75
- pdocs: over 75
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Major
professional activities and other honors |
- Membership of IUPAC committees (selection only):
- Inorganic Chemistry Nomenclature (CNIC,associated and Titular
Member; 1977-1987)
- Interdivisional Committee on Nomenclature and Symbols, Titular
(IDCNS; 1985-1994)
- Interdivisional Committee on Bioinorganic Terminology, Titular
(1992-1996)
- Working groups on Red Book Chapters, Bioinorganic Terminology,
ET proteins (1988-1997)
- Elected Division Committee member Inorganic Chemistry (2005)
- Netherlands National Representative Nomenclature Division (2005)
- Chairman Department of Chemistry, Leiden University (1985-1989)
- Scientific Director Leiden Institute of Chemistry (1993-1998);
Scientific and Managing Director (1998-2004)
- Chairman Organizing Committee 3rd Intern. Conference on Bioinorganic
Chemistry (1987)
- Member International Organizing Committee EURASIA conferences
of Chemistry (1990-2000); Chairman 1994-96.
- Member of the International Organizing Committee of the International
Symposium on Macromolecule Metal Complexes (1993-present); chairman
1995-1997.
- Board Member International Conferences on Bioinorganic Chemistry
(1985-present)
- Board Member European Conferences on Bioinorganic Chemistry
(1992-present)
- Board Member International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic
Chemistry (1992-present)
- Council Member Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC;
1999-present)
- Executive Secretary of the International Coordination Chemistry
Conferences (1988-present)
- Member International Advisory Board of the European Inorganic
Chemistry Seminars (1986-1988, 2002 onwards)
- National Representative Committee of Chemistry of COST (1990-1996)
- Chairman Management Committee Biocoordination Chemistry, COSTD1
(1992-1994)
- Max Planck Society: Fachbeirat MPI für Bioanorganische
Chemie, Mülheim (1995-present)
- Member of the Netherlands National Foresight Committee in Chemistry
(1993-1996)
- Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (selection of duties and
honors):
- president 1990 (president-elect in 1989); chairman and member
of several committees
- chairman committee of inorganic chemistry nomenclature (1979-present)
- Elected Honorary Member (2003)
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (selection of
committees):
- board member of academy chemistry commission (1980-1988; 1990;
2002-present);
- ordinary member of the commission (1988-1991; 1993-present)
- Netherlands Organization for Advancement of Research (NWO):
- Board member of committee of physical sciences (1978-1985)
- Executive Committee, Foundation for Chemical Research
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Major
editorial boards |
- Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions (1989-1997)
- Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (1991-present)
- Advances in Inorganic Chemistry (1987-present)
- Comments on Inorganic Chemistry (1987-present)
- Russian Journal of Coordination Chemistry (1999-present)
- New Journal of Chemistry (Nouveau Journal de Chimie) (1989-2004)
- Editor at Large: "Bioinorganic Chemistry", M. Dekker
(1993-2005)
- Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications (1993-1997)
- Topics in Biological Inorganic Chemistry (1996-present)
- Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (1995-2000, 2006-present)
- Inorganic Chemistry (1997-1999)
- Inorganic Synthesis (1999-present)
- European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (Founding Editor; 1998-present)
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