Prof. Arjan W. Kleij

Prof. Arjan W. Kleij received his MSc and PhD in chemistry (Utrecht University) working in the group of Gerard van Koten on the application of dendrimer- and hyperbranched polymer-supported homogeneous catalyst structures. In 2000, he moved to industry and worked for more than 3 years first at Avantium working on biopolymer synthesis, and later on at Hexion Specialty Chemicals in the Epoxy & Phenolic Resins Division. He joined the group of Javier de Mendoza (UAM, Madrid) as a postdoc in 2002, and continued with Joost Reek at the University of Amsterdam in the field of supramolecular catalysis. In October 2006, he accepted a position as Group Leader at ICIQ and was promoted to ICREA professor in 2011.

Prof. Kleij received various recognitions/awards; in 2000 he received an NWO TALENT fellowship, was elected ICREA junior fellow in 2006, and featured in the “Author Profile section” of Angewandte Chemie in 2018. He joined Organic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC) as an Associate Editor (2019). Recently, he was endowed with the 2020 Excellence award from the Spanish Chemical Society, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2021, and received the 2023 European Sustainable Chemistry Award (ESCA) and the 2023 Catalan Chemical Society Scientific Excellence award. Since 2023, he is the scientific coordinator of the HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN-JD joint doctoral network “D-Carbonize”.

He has been an invited professor at Tokyo University (2022) and visiting professor at the university of Salerno (Italy) in 2024. In 2019 he was the chair of the 4th EuCheMS Congress on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (EuGSC-4) in Tarragona. Prof. Kleij has (co)authored around 240 international (journal) publications and 6 patent applications with total citations >17350 (h-index 72, i10-index 188).