Jan ReedijkJan Reedijk
Jan Reedijk is emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Leiden University. He has authored and co-authored over 1100 research papers in molecular inorganic chemistry areas, like coordination chemistry, biomimetic chemistry, anticancer metalcompounds and homogeneous catalysis. His work has been honored by a Max Planck Award, and a Royal Knighthood to the order of the Dutch Lion. He is also an elected Member of the Royal Netherland Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea and the Finnish Academy of Sciences. In 2023 he received a doctorate honoris cause from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He has been a founding editor of the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry and served on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals. He has been the Executive Secretary of the International Conferences on Coordination Chemistry (1988-2012) and served as chair or on organizing committees of many other international conferences. He has been President of the inorganic Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and has been serving on several IUPAC Committees, most recently as co-chair of the management of the International Years of the Periodic Table, 2019. He has also been and is still active in a number of European COST actions in Chemistry. For the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society he acted as vice-president and president and has been an honorary member since 2003. He has also served the Netherlands Foundation of Chemical Research. During his career he spent sabbatical periods in Cambridge, Strasbourg, Louvain, Münster, Dunedin and Torun. He has been the Director of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry from 1993-2005. Read More Read Less