Wilhelm Huck#
| Membership Number: | 4450 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ru.nl/physicalorganicchemistry |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Professor of Chemistry, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Nijmegen
- 2007 - 2012 Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Cambridge
- 2004 - 2010 Director, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge
- 2003 - 2007 Reader in Chemistry, University of Cambridge
- 1999 - 2009 College Lecturer and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
- 1999 - 2003 University Lecturer. University of Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Physical organic chemistry
- Out-of-equilibrium complex systems
- Physical biology of the cell
- Origin of life - synthetic cell
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Spinoza Prize of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- 2012 Elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2011 NWO-Vici award
- 2010 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2009 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation
- 2004 DuPont Young Professor Award
- 2001 Young Investigator Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, MacroGroup UK
- 1997 DSM Award for best Ph.D. research in the Netherlands in polymer-related chemistry
- 1996 Schloeßmann Award from the Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
