Principal Investigator

Graham de Ruiter

Associate Professor • Schulich Faculty of Chemistry • Technion IIT, Haifa

Graham was born in 1985 in s-Gravendeel, a small village in the south-west of the Netherlands. He attended Leiden University where he received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree (cum laude) under the supervision of Prof. Jan Reedijk. In 2008 he moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science to pursue his Ph.D. with Prof. Milko E. van der Boom, working on sequence-dependent assembly strategies and molecular logic. After his doctorate, Graham joined Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Theodor Agapie, working on multi-metallic complexes for small molecule activation. He returned to Israel in 2017 as a Horev and Azrieli Fellow to establish the De Ruiter Research Laboratory at the Technion.

Prof. Graham de Ruiter
Prof. Graham de Ruiter
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Academic career

Career & Education

2017 – Present
Associate Professor
Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
2014 – 2017
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
California Institute of Technology — Group of Prof. Theodor Agapie
2008 – 2013
Ph.D. in Chemistry
Weizmann Institute of Science — Group of Prof. Milko E. van der Boom
2003 – 2008
B.Sc. & M.Sc. Chemistry (cum laude)
Leiden University — Group of Prof. Jan Reedijk
59+
Publications
10+
Years active
15+
Lab members
6
Funding bodies
Recognition & service

Awards, Honors & Editorial Roles

2025Israel Chemical Society Outstanding Young Scientist Award
2024Cooper Award for Excellence in Research
2022ERC Consolidator Grant
2022The Marker — 40 Under 40 Most Promising Young People
2022Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
2019Kavli Frontiers of Science Alumni
2017Azrieli Faculty Fellow & Horev Fellow
2013Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize — Feinberg Graduate School
2013IPMI Sabin Metal Corporation Student Award
2011Israel Chemical Society Prize for Excellent Graduate Student
Editorial & Advisory Boards
JACS AuEarly Career Advisory Board — since 2021
Science of SynthesisEarly Career Advisory Board — since 2022
Chemistry — An Asian JournalEarly Career Advisory Board — since 2022