# Bert Meijer

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University Professor

# Bert Meijer

- [Personal URL](http://www.meijerlab.nl "Personal site")
- [CV](https://www.meijerlab.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CV-Bert-Meijer-2021-2022.pdf "Personal site")
- [PURE url](https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/ew-bert-meijer/ "Research Portal")

##### Contact

[e.w.meijer@tue.nl](#)

[+31 40 247 3101](tel:+31402473101)

[Ceres 1.29](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=51.446935,5.488724)

##### Department / Institute

[Chemical Engineering and Chemistry](https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/departments/chemical-engineering-and-chemistry)

##### Group

[Macro-Organic Chemistry](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/macromolecular-and-organic-chemistry/macro-organic-chemistry)

[Institute for Complex Molecular Systems](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/institutes/institute-for-complex-molecular-systems)

[ICMS Core](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/icms-core-member)

## RESEARCH PROFILE

> My dream is that at one point in time we will understand so much about how molecules work together, that we can make the simplest form of life in a laboratory.

## Mimic Life

> The first time I had made a molecule that nobody else had ever made before, I was so excited and I thought, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life: working with molecules.
>
> Bert Meijer about his passion for molecules

## ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Bert Meijer studied chemistry at the University of Groningen and obtained his master's degree in 1978. In 1982 he earned his PhD degree summa cum laude under supervision of Prof. Hans Wijnberg. In 1982 Meijer started working at the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven and in 1989 he moved to DSM Research in Geleen. In 1991 he was installed as full professor of Organic Chemistry at the department for Chemical Engineering and Chemistry of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). In 1999 his chair was also established at the department for Biomedical Engineering. Since 2004 Bert Meijer is a distinguished university professor of Molecular Sciences at TU/e. He founded the TU/e Institute for Complex Molecular Systems in 2008 and is now a co-director. Meijer is adjunct professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at Radboud University Nijmegen since 1994 and distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2008. In 2014 Bert Meijer was inducted as Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018 he is also an external member of the scientific staff of the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany.

## Key Publications

- [See all publications](https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/ew-bert-meijer//publications/)

- [### Encapsulation of guest molecules into a dendritic box

  Science

  (1994)

  J.F.G.A. Jansen,E.M.M. Berg, van den,E.W. Meijer](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/158e1e0a-d50d-48a0-88aa-aade623958b5)
- [### Reversible polymers from self-complementary monomers, using quadruple hydrogen bonding

  Science

  (1997)

  R.P. Sijbesma,F.H. Beijer,L. Brunsveld,B.J.B. Folmer,J.H.K.K. Hirschberg,R.F.M. Lange,J.K.L. Lowe,E.W. Meijer](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/433d6a92-eb33-477f-b21b-5b6311426319)
- [### Probing the solvent-assisted nucleation pathway in chemical self-assembly

  Science

  (2006)

  P. Jonkheijm,P.P.A.M. Schoot, van der,A.P.H.J. Schenning,E.W. Meijer](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/92ace544-deaa-4fba-b10e-4e735aef8e52)
- [### Functional supramolecular polymers

  Science

  (2012)

  T. Aida,E.W. Meijer,S.I. Stupp](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/8f6f017b-eb3d-4ddc-ad07-0a29a1da1ed4)
- [### Pathway complexity in supramolecular polymerization

  Nature

  (2012)

  P.A. Korevaar,S.J. George,A.J. Markvoort,M.M.J. Smulders,P.A.J. Hilbers,A.P.H.J. Schenning,T.F.A. Greef, de,E.W. Meijer](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/8476ca40-19b5-49ee-b78d-21188ed315f0)

## Current Educational Activities

- [Project organic chemistry](https://tue.osiris-student.nl/#/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus/?cursuscode=8PM01&collegejaar=2025)
- [Macro-organic chemistry](https://tue.osiris-student.nl/#/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus/?cursuscode=6E3X0&collegejaar=2025)

## Ancillary Activities

- Member of the International Advisory Committee, Solvay Institute Brussels
- Member of the GRC Conference Evaluation Committee, Gordon Research Conferences
- Member of the TNF committee, Villum Foundations
- Toezicht op het beleid van de stichting, Vice-voorzitter van de Stichting Eurandom
- Visiting Professor at the Chemistry Department of UNSW, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia
- External member of the Max Planck Gesellschaft - MPI-Mainz, Max Planck Gesellschaft
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Körber-Award, Körber Stiftung
- Member of their Scientific Advisory Board, Xeltis
- Chair of the external review committee 'Information', Helmholtz Association Berlin
- Member of the advisory board of the soft matter Institute, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
- Member and chair of the board of the foundation, 4H-Brug
- Visiting professor, University of California Santa Barbara
- Director and owner, Seimi Holding
- Member of the supervisory board, SyMO-Chem
- Associate member of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society
- Member and chair of the supervisory board, SupraPolix