Zernike Chair 2015

E.W. (Bert) Meijer, from the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems at the Eindhoven University of Technology, has accepted the prestigious Zernike Chair.

The Zernike Chair has been established to offer a temporary position at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials to a world-class scientist in materials science, with the aim of further improving the Institute’s research, teaching, and visibility.

Bert Meijer is Distinguished University Porfessor in the Molecular Sciences and Professor Organic Chemistry. Meijer received a number of awards, including the Spinoza Award in 2001, the ACS Award for Polymer Chemistry in 2006, the AkzoNobel Science Award 2010, the International Award of the Society of Polymer Science Japan in 2011, the Cope Scholar Award of the ACS in 2012, and the Prelog medal in 2014. He is a member of a number of academies and societies, including the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, where he is appointed to Academy Professor in 2014.