| Han Zuilhof | |
| Birth Date: | May 21, 1965 |
| Birth Place: | Sassenheim |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Field: | Organic Chemistry, Bionanotechnology, Surface Science |
| Work Institution: | Wageningen University AFSG |
Han Zuilhof (born 1965) holds the chair of organic chemistry at Wageningen University. His interests focus on surface-bound (bio-)organic chemistry and bionanotechnology.
Zuilhof obtained an MSc in chemistry and MA in philosophy from Leiden University. After a PhD in organic chemistry (Leiden University, 1994) and postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester and Columbia University, he joined the faculty at Wageningen University. He has been a professor of organic chemistry since 2007. He has written over 340 research papers,[1] and more than 10 patents. He is an adjunct professor of chemical engineering at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and a perennial 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 and was a senior editor of Langmuir from 2016 to 2020.[2] In 2021, as part of a team led by Barry Sharpless, he shared the Robert Robinson Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry for contributions to click chemistry.[3] He is also the founder (2011) of a spin-off company, Surfix.[4]
Among his recent accomplishments are the discovery of tiara[5]arenes,[5] the first intrinsically chiral click reaction (no chiral auxiliary or catalyst needed),[6] and the synthesis and structure elucidation of SOF4-based SuFEx-derived polymers.[7]