Education and Professional Experience

2015 -     Professor, Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2013 -     Appointed UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in Biochemical Sciences, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

2006     Visiting Professor, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

2004 - 2013     Appointed Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

1998 -     Professor, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

1997 - 1998     Professor, Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

1993 - 1997     Lecturer, Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

1992 - 1993     Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Prof. S.V. Ley)

1991 - 1992     Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom (Prof. S.V. Ley)

1991     Ph.D., Synthetic Carbohydrate Chemistry, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands (advisor: Prof. J.H. van Boom), Thesis: An approach towards the development of a synthetic vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis

1987 - 1988     Research Scientist, Department of Research and Development, N.V. Organon, Oss, The Netherlands

1987     First Degree (equivalent to M.Sc.), Chemistry, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands

Honors and Awards

2022     Elected Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors

2016     Arthur C. Cope Mid Career Scholars Award, Arthur C. Cope Fund, American Chemical Society

2015     Claude S. Hudson Award, Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry, American Chemical Society

2015     Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award, University of Georgia Research Foundation

2014     Roy L. Whistler International Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry, International Carbohydrate Organization (ICO)

2013     Appointed UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in Biochemical Sciences, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia

2012     Creative Research Inventor’s Award, University of Georgia Research Foundation

2004     Appointed Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia

2004     Horace S. Isbell Award, Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry, American Chemical Society

2004     Northeast Georgia American Chemical Society (NEGACS) Chemist of the Year Award for Research

2003     Elected chair, 2005 Gordon Research Conference on Carbohydrate

2003     Carbohydrate Research Award for Creativity in Carbohydrate Science, European Carbohydrate Organisation at EuroCarb 2003

2001     Elected co-chair, 2003 Gordon Research Conference on Carbohydrate

1991 - 1993     Ramsay Memorial Fellowship