Jan Reedijk#
Membership Number: | 2241 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2004 |
Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Homepage(s): | http://www.jan-reedijk.nl |
ORCID: | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6739-8514 |
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
- Applications of coordination chemistry in catalysis, medicine, ion-exchange, surface chemistry
- Bioinorganic chemistry
- Metal-DNA interactions
- Magnetic and electric interactions in coordination compounds and magnetic materials
- Active-site structure and mechanism
- Molecular recognition and intermolecular interactions (catalysis; biomacromolecules)
- Coordination chemistry of transition-metal ions
- Models for metalloproteins
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)