Wilhelm Huck - Biography#

Prof. Wilhelm T. S. Huck is Professor of Physical Organic Chemistry at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He received his PhD (supervisor Prof. David Reinhoudt) in 1997 from the University of Twente. After postdoctoral research with Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University, he took up a position in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, where he was promoted to Reader (2003) and Full Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry (2007). He became Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis in 2004 and in 2010 he moved to the Radboud University, Nijmegen. His research is focused on understanding how chemical reactions create something we consider living and on the physical organic chemistry of the cell. The group studies out-of-equilibrium reaction networks and aims to elucidate, using model systems, the influence of the special nature of the cellular environment on complex reaction networks in cells. The ultimate goal of his research is the bottom-up construction of a living cell. He was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2012. His research group in Nijmegen is supported by an ERC advanced grant (2010), a VICI award (2011) and the Spinoza Prize (2016). He is co-founder of two spin-out companies (Sphere Fluidics and Cytofind Diagnostics).

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