Han Zuilhof


Han Zuilhof holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Wageningen University. His interests focus on surface-bound organic chemistry and bionanotechnology. He obtained an MSc in Chemistry and MA in Philosophy from Leiden University. After a PhD in Organic Chemistry, 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 over 300 research papers, and more than 10 patents. He is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and a Perennial Distinguished Guest Professor of Molecular Science and Medicinal Chemistry at the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology at Tianjin University, China.
He serves/served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Langmuir, and Applied Surface Science.
In 2016, he was appointed Senior Editor of Langmuir. And in 2018, Han Zuilhof was elected as a "Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry for his outstanding contributions to chemical science.
He is a founder of a spin-off company Surfix, and co-founder of another, Biomarque.