Name Bert Weckhuysen | ||
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Bert Marc Weckhuysen FRSC (born 27 July 1968) is a Belgian professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at Utrecht University. He was a winner of the 2013 Spinoza Prize.
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Career
Weckhuysen was born on 27 July 1968 in Aarschot. He studied chemistry and biology at Leuven. He obtained his PhD in Leuven in 1995 under R. Schoonheydt with a thesis titled:Oppervlaktechemie van Cr aan anorganische oppervlakken. In 2000 Weckhuysen was appointed as professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at Utrecht University.
In 2006 Weckhuysen received the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) Golden Medal at the age of 37.
Since 2011 Weckhuysen is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 2013 he was one of three winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2,5 million euro grant.
On 24 April 2015 he was made Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Weckhuysen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.