Rein Ulijn Bio

Rein Ulijn is the founding Director of the Nanoscience Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at CUNY, New York. He was awarded a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, the Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award and supports basic research with the potential for transformative impact. Previous awards include the RSC Norman Heatley Medal, Royal Society Merit Award, Macro Group Young Researchers Medal and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is the Einstein Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College of CUNY and previously held faculty positions at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Manchester, UK. He gained his PhD in biophysical chemistry from the University of Strathclyde with Peter Halling, and postdoc at the University of Edinburgh with Sabine Flitsch. He gained his MSc in biotechnology from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.