Biographie
Prof. Mir Wais Hosseini was trained in chemistry at the University of Strasbourg where he undertook his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn (1983). After a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. M.P. Mertes at Kansas University followed by a stay in Prof. K.N. Raymond at the University of California, Berkeley, he became CNRS research associat in 1989 at the University of Strasbourg. He is now Exceptional Class Professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Chair of Molecular Tectonics, and director of the Molecular Tectonics Laboratory. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, member of the European Academy of Sciecnes, Arts and Humanities, Member of Academia Europaea, Honorary Member of Romanian Chemical Society, Silver Medal of the French National Research Center (CNRS) and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.