Floris Rutjes#
| Membership Number: | 6198 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ru.nl/en/people/rutjes-f |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1538-3852 |
| Twitter: | @FlorisRutjes |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/floris-rutjes-117b325/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Academic positions
- 1999 Full Professor and Chair of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 1999-2004 Part-time Professor of Combinatorial Synthesis, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1995-1999 Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Administrative positions
- 2021 President European Chemical Society (EuChemS)
- 2020 President-Elect European Chemical Society (EuChemS)
- 2016-2019 President Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV)
- 2019 Director Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2016-2019 Vice-Dean Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2008-2016 Director education Institute for Molecular Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Flow chemistry
- Molecular bio-conjugation
- Click-reactions
- Synthesis of organic small molecules
- New synthetic methods
- Microreactors
- Medicinal chemistry
- Catalysis of organic reactions
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Chemistry Europe Fellow
- 2021 Elected Member of the Elected member Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (ACTI)
- 2021 Member of EU High-Level Roundtable on the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
- 2020 Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Royal distinction: Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw)
- 2014 Educational Award Radboud University
- 2008 Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of the Netherlands Award
- 2003 International AstraZeneca Award for Research in Organic Chemistry
- 2002 Gold Medal of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society
- 1993 National Science Organization Talent Award
- 1988 Unilever Research Prize
