Institute for Complex Molecular Systems
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB  EINDHOVEN
The Netherlands

Office: HeO 4.36
Telephone: +31 40 247 3101
E-mail: e.w.meijer@remove-this.tue.nl

Biography
Professor E.W. (Bert) Meijer was born in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1955. He studied at the University of Groningen, where he received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry in 1978. He obtained his PhD degree cum laude from the same university in 1982. Bert Meijer has performed his PhD research in the field of organic chemistry with a study on chemiluminescence of 1,2-dioxetanes under the supervision of professor H. Wynberg. In the period 1982 - 1989 he was active as research chemist in the field of functional organic materials, including conducting polymers, at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. From 1989 till 1992 he was appointed as head of the department "New Materials" at DSM Research in Geleen, the Netherlands. In 1992, Bert Meijer started as professor in Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). In 2002 he was appointed also as professor in the newly established Department of Biomedical Engineering in Eindhoven. From 2004, he is appointed as Distinguished University Professor of Molecular Sciences at his University. More than sixty students from his group received their PhD degree. Since 2008 Bert Meijer is Scientific Director of the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (TU/e).
From 1995 Bert Meijer is also adjunct professor in Macromolecular Chemistry at the Nijmegen University. He was a visiting professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium (1995), the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1998), the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (2003) and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2008). From 2006 onwards, he is a distinguished visiting professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara. From the research activities in the group of Bert Meijer, two companies have been started. SyMO-Chem is a professional contract research company founded in 2000, while SupraPolix is started in 2003 and focuses on supramolecular polymers. Since 2006, Bert Meijer is chairman of the External Scientific Board of Royal DSM.
 
Research
Through the years, the science of the Meijer group focuses more and more on supramolecular systems and how individual molecules can influence the properties of the assembly of multi-component systems. Today, the main focus is on the non-covalent synthesis of complex molecular systems. The "engineering of adaptive complex molecular systems" is regarded by the group as one of the major challenges for chemists.
 
Awards and professional memberships
Bert Meijer's contributions to science are recognized with the Golden Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society in 1993, the Arthur K. Doolittle award of the American Chemical Society in 1995 and the Silver Medal of the MacroGroup UK of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2000. In 2001, he was awarded with the prestigious SPINOZA-Award of the Dutch Science Foundation NWO. Bert Meijer is member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (since 1997) and in 2003 he was elected as member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Art and Sciences. In 2006 he received the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry. He was chosen as best teacher of the year of the Eindhoven University of Technology (2009). In 2010 Bert Meijer received an ERC Advanced Grant, the Wheland Medal and the AkzoNobel Science Award. Bert Meijer is member of many editorial advisory boards including JACS, Chemical Communications and Angewandte Chemie. Since 2005 he is Editor of Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry.

 Bert Meijer's full CV can be found here.


Selected publications

• A.W. Bosman, H.M. Janssen and E.W. Meijer, About Dendrimers: structure, physical properties, and applications, Chem. Rev. 99, 1665 - 1688 (1999)
• H. Sirringhaus, P.J. Brown, R.H. Friend, M.M. Nielsen, K. Bechaard, B.M.W. Langeveld-Voss, A.J.H. Spiering, R.A.J. Janssen, E.W. Meijer, P. Herwig and D.M.d. Leeuw, Two-dimensional charge transport in self-organized, high-mobility conjugated polymers, Nature 401, 685 - 688 (1999)
• J.H.K.K. Hirschberg, L. Brunsveld, A. Ramzi, J.A.J.M. Vekemans, R.P. Sijbesma and E.W. Meijer, Helical self-assembled polymers from cooperative stacking of hydrogen-bonded pairs, Nature 407, 167-170 (2000)
• A.P.H.J. Schenning, P. Jonkheijm, E. Peeters and E.W. Meijer, Hierarchical order in supramolecular assemblies of hydrogen-bonded oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)s, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 409-416 (2001)
• L. Brunsveld, B.J.B. Folmer, E.W. Meijer and R.P. Sijbesma, Supramolecular polymers, Chem. Rev. 101, 4071-4097 (2001)
• J.J. van Gorp, J.A.J.M. Vekemans and E.W. Meijer, C₃-Symmetrical supramolecular architectures; fibers and organic gels from discotic trisamides and trisureas, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 14759-14769 (2002)
• G.B.W.L. Ligthart, H. Ohkawa, R.P. Sijbesma and E.W. Meijer, Complementary quadruple hydrogen bonding in supramolecular copolymers, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 810-811 (2005)
• P.Y.W. Dankers, M. Harmsen, L. Brouwer, M. van Luyn and E.W. Meijer, A modular and supramolecular approach to bioactive scaffolds for tissue engineering, Nature Materials 4(7), 568-574 (2005)
• P. Jonkheijm, P. v.d. Schoot, A.P.H.J. Schenning and E.W. Meijer, Probing the solvent-assisted nucleation pathway in chemical self-assembly, Science 5783, 313, 80-83 (2006)
• A.R.A. Palmans and E.W. Meijer, Amplification of chirality in dynamic supramolecular aggregates, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 8948-8968 (2007)

 
A complete list of publications you will find here.