Curriculum Vitae Hans Vliegenthart
Personal Data
Family name: Vliegenthart
Given names: Johannes Frederik Gerardus (Hans)
Office address: Department of Bio-Organic Chemistry
Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University
Padualaan 8 - room Z702
NL-3584 CH Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 30 253 2168 / +31 6 233 66 88 9
E-mail: j.f.g.vliegenthart@uu.nl
Academic Background Utrecht University
1953 - 1960 Chemistry
1967 Ph.D.-Thesis: Neurohypophyseal hormones, a comparative study
Academic Positions at Utrecht University in Bio-Organic Chemistry
1968 Assistant Professor
1975 Associate Professor (Lector)
1980 Full Professor
1982 - 1984 Chairman of the Department Organic Chemistry
1985 - 2003 Chairman of the Department of Bio-Organic Chemistry
1985 – 1989 Dean Faculty of Chemistry
2000 - 2003 Dean Faculty of Chemistry
1988 - 2000 Founder and Research Director of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research (a joint institute of the Netherlands Science Foundation and Utrecht University)
1992 - 2000 Director of the Bijvoet Research School for Biomolecular Chemistry
2003 - Honorary Professor Utrecht University
2010 - Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Bijvoet Center
International Functions
1979- Netherlands representative in the International Glycoconjugate Organization
2015- Chairman of the Task Group for Carbohydrate Nomenclature of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
Guest Professorships
1974 University of Cape Town, South Africa
2004 - 2008 Tsinghua University, Beijing China
2008 – 2009 Nankai University, Tianjin China
2013 Senior Scientific Advisor at the Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biotechnology and Medicine
Awards & Distinctions
1978 Hilditch Memorial Lecture Award
1987 Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1988 Shield of the Medical Faculty of Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Honorary Member of the American Society for Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
1990 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
1992 Honorary Doctor, University of Debrecen, Hungary
1993 Honorary Doctor, University of Science and Technology of Lille,France
1993 Louis Pasteur Medal of the University of Science and Technology of Lille, France
1994 Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the American Chemical Society
1997 Honorary Doctor, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands
1999 Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
2000 Bijvoet Medal of Utrecht University
2001 Medal of Rome University, Tor Vergata, Italy
2002 Highly Cited Researcher, Institute Scientific Information
2003 Silver Medal Utrecht University
2007 Honorary Member Netherlands Society for Glycobiology
2016 Medal of Merit, KF Hein Foundation, Utrecht The Netherlands
2017 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
A Chairman or member of many National and International Scientific Boards and Advisory Bodies
Research Interests
The primary and three-dimensional structure of carbohydrates, glycoproteins, glycolipids and other glycoconjugates. Glycobiology. Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates, Biocatalysis, iron- containing enzymes, enzymic oxygenation, poly-unsaturated fatty acids
Publications
Author or Co-author of about 700 scientific publications; see for a list: