Chemist Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt appointed

Prof. Dr. Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt has been appointed Professor of Anorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry. He was previously an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

Van der Vlugt studied chemistry and chemical technology at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, where he also completed his PhD in 2003. He then took a post as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). In 2005, he moved to the University of Göttingen on a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Early 2007, van der Vlugt returned to Eindhoven to set up his own research group. Eighteen months later he moved to the University of Amsterdam as an assistant professor. In 2011 he was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant, and in 2017 he was appointed associate professor with the right to award doctorates. Together with his research group, van der Vlugt studies chemical reactions inspired by biological models. Other focuses include phosphorus chemistry and sustainable chemistry.