Graham de Ruiter

Biography

Graham attended Leiden University for his undergraduate studies where he received both his Bachelor (B.Sc.) and Master (M.Sc.) degree (cum laude) under the supervision of Prof. Jan Reedijk. In 2008, Graham moved to the Weizmann Institute Science to pursue his Ph.D. studies with Prof. Milko E. van der Boom, working on sequence dependent assembly strategies and molecular logic. After obtaining his Ph.D., Graham moved to the California Institute of Technology to perform post-doctoral research with Prof. Theodor Agapie working on the synthesis of multi-metallic complexes for small molecule activation and oxygen atom transfer reactions. During his studies, Graham has received the Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Award for excellent graduate student (2011), the International Precious Metal Institute (IPMI) Sabin Metal Corporation Student Award (2013), the Feinberg Graduate School (FGS) and the Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize (2013). Graham returned to Israel in 2017 to start his independent career at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa), where he is an assistant professor in the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry as a Horev Fellow supported by the The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation in the Leaders in Science and Technology Faculty Recruitment Program and an Azrieli Young Faculty Fellow. His research mainly focusses on using earth abundant metals to address fundamental challenges related to catalysis, small molecular activation and solar energy conversion in order to provide clean and cost-effective methods for maintaining a sustainable energy landscape. Graham is also on the Early Career Advisory Board of JACS Au, Science of Synthesis, and Chemistry – an Asian Journal and a recipient of the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award.