Roeland Nolte
Roeland Nolte is Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and former Director of the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) of this university. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science and holds a special Royal Academy of Science Chair in Chemistry. His research interests span a broad range of topics at the interfaces of Supramolecular Chemistry, Macromolecular Chemistry, and Biomimetic Chemistry. In his work he focuses on the design of catalysts and (macro) molecular materials. He and his group have published circa 600 scientific papers.
Professor Nolte's contributions to science have been recognized with numerous award lectureships and several national and international prices including the Izatt-Christensen Award for Excellence in Macrocyclic Chemistry, the first Royal Netherlands Academy of Science Chair in Chemistry, and a knighthood in 2003. He has served on the editorial boards of many scientific journals, including the journal Science (Washington) and the RSC journal Chemical Communications (as Chairman).
