Jan Reedijk#
| Email: | reedijk 'at' chem.leidenuniv.nl |
| Membership Number: | 2241 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Username: | jreedijk |
| Elected: | 2004 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Professor Part-time, Chemistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Since 2009 Professor Part-time, Chemistry, Leiden University The Netherlands
- 1979-2009 Full Professor, Chemistry, Leiden University The Netherlands
- 1972-1979 Senior Lecturer, delft Univ. Technology, Netherlands
- 1968 Ph.D. Chemistry, Leiden
Fields of Scholarship
- 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
- Magnetic and electric interactions in coordination compounds and magnetic materials
- Molecular recognition and intermolecular interactions (catalysis; biomacromolecules)
Honours and Awards
- 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)
