Timothy Noël, born 1982 in Aalst (Belgium), received in 2004 his MSc degree (Industrial Chemical Engineering) from the KaHo Sint-Lieven in Ghent. He then moved to Ghent University to obtain a PhD at the Laboratory for Organic and Bioorganic Synthesis under the supervision of Professor Johan Van der Eycken (2005-2009). Next, he crossed the ocean to work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Stephen L. Buchwald. At MIT, he worked on the development of new continuous-flow methods for cross-coupling chemistry at the MIT-Novartis Center for Continuous Manufacturing. He became assistant professor in 2012 and associate professor in 2017 at Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2020, he was promoted to Full Professor at the University of Amsterdam where he is the Chair of Flow Chemistry. His research interests are flow chemistry, homogeneous catalysis and organic synthesis.
He coordinated the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ETN programs “Photo4Future” (2015-2018) and “PhotoReAct” (2021-2024). His research on flow chemistry was recognized with several awards, including the DECHEMA award (2017), the Hoogewerff Jongerenprijs (2019), the IUPAC-ThalesNano Flow Chemistry Award (2020) and the KNCV Gold Medal (2021). He is the editor in chief of Journal of Flow Chemistry.
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Full Professor
University of Amsterdam, 2020 – present
Associate Professor (tenured)
Eindhoven University of Technology, 2017 – 2020
Assistant Professor
Eindhoven University of Technology, 2012 – 2017
Postdoc
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-2011
MIT-Novartis Center of Continuous Manufacturing
Advisor: Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald
Ph.D. in Organic Synthetic Chemistry
Ghent University, 2005-2009
Advisor: Prof. Johan Van der Eycken
M.Sc. Industrial Chemical Engineering
KaHo Sint Lieven, Ghent, 2000-2004
Awards:
| 2022 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2022 | ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award |
| 2021 | KNCV Gold Medal (2021) |
| 2020 | IUPAC-ThalesNano Flow Chemistry Award |
| 2019 | Hoogewerff Jongerenprijs. |
| 2017 | “DECHEMA Award” in recognition of his pioneering work on continuous photochemical conversion in microfluidic systems. |
| 2016 | “Thieme Chemistry Journal Award” for promising young professors at the beginning of their career. |
| 2015 | VIDI award (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research, NWO) |
| 2013 | Marie Curie Career Integration Grant. |
| 2012 | VENI grant (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research, NWO)
Finalist European Young Chemist Award, EuCheMS Conference. |
| 2011 | Incentive Award for Young Researchers 2011 (Comité de Gestion du Bulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges). |
| 2010 | Fulbright – Hays Award. |
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