Personal details:
Name:              Pieter C. A. Bruijnincx
Date of birth:    9 april 1979
ResearcherID:  http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-7992-2011

Current position:

2018-present Full Professor Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis, Utrecht University, Dep. of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry & Catalysis Group

Previous positions:

2015-2018 Associate Professor Catalysis for Renewables (UHD), Utrecht University, Dep. of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry & Catalysis Group

2013-2015 Tenured Assistant Professor Catalysis for Renewables (UD), Utrecht University, Dep. of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry & Catalysis Group

2009-2013 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Utrecht University, Dep. of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry & Catalysis Group

2007-2008 Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dep. of Chemistry, Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry Group, June 2007 - December 2008

Education:
2002-2007 PhD in Chemistry, Universiteit Utrecht (cum laude)

'Structural and Functional Modeling of Non Heme Iron Enzymes: A study of the 2-His-1-Carboxylate Facial Triad' Supervisors: Prof. Bert Klein Gebbink, Prof. Gerard van Koten and prof. Bert Weckhuysen. Awarded the degree on 31 Jan 2007. Funded by the NRSC-C (Netherlands Research School Combination-Catalysis)

2002 Research Project at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA with prof. Michael Scott on Bioinorganic Chemistry

1997-2002 MSc in Chemistry, Universiteit Utrecht (cum laude), Organic Chemistry & Catalysis (Prof. Gerard van Koten)

Personal grants:
2014      VIDI Grant (NWO, 5y personal grant)‘Bio-Inspired Heterogeneous Catalysts for Biomass Conversion Processes’

2010      VENI Grant (NWO, 3y personal grant) ‘Building the Renewable Lignin Platform: New Heterogeneous Catalyst Technology for the Production of Chemicals and Fuels from Biomass’

2007      Rubicon Scholarship (NWO, 2y personal grant)