Ben Feringa
Editorships and editorial boards
- Chair Editorial Board Chemistry World, RSC
- Founding Scientific Editor of the RSC journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, current member Editorial Advisory Board
- Member Editorial Advisory Board Chemical Communications, former member Editorial Board
- Member Editorial Board Faraday Trans., Royal Society
- Member Editorial Board Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis
- Member Editorial Board Adv. Phys. Org. Chem.
- Member Editorial Board Topics in Stereochemistry
- Member Editorial Advisory Board, Chemistry, an Asian Journal
- Member Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Former member International Advisory Board, Macromolecular Rapid Communications
- International Advisory Board, Israel Journal of Chemistry
Memberships to academies
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Science, USA
- Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences KNAW
- Member of the Netherlands Academy for Technology and Innovation (ACTI)
- Member of the Academia Europeae
- Member of the American Chemical Society
- Member of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry UK
Present and recent functions
- Co-chair Origins Center, the Netherlands
- Chair Executive Board National Advanced Research Center CBBC, the Netherlands
- PI and board member Gravitation excellence program Functional Molecular Systems
- Member Founder’s Assembly foundation Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings
- Member Recommendation Committee ‘De Jonge Onderzoekers’ (Young Researchers), the Netherlands
- Former vice-president, chair Physical Division and member board KNAW; Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- Former chairman board Chemistry Division, Netherlands Science Foundation NWO-CW
- Former council member, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
- Member publishing board RSC (UK)
- Former management team NRSC-C Topresearch School Catalysis
- Former board Catchbio National Program, co-program leader Fine Chemistry
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Trust leader
- Former Member Executive Director’s ACS 2010 Board, American Chemical Society, USA
- Member board H.J. Backer Foundation
- Member board Havinga Foundation
- International Conference on Chirality, member scientific committee
- Member International Scientific Committee Photochemistry Conference
- Member International Scientific Committee International CD Conferences
- Member International Organizing Committee International IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC)
- Member Regiegroep Chemistry, The Netherlands
- Member scientific evaluation committee Volkswagenstiftung, Germany
- Member international scientific evaluation committee Max Planck Institutes 2014
- Chair international Janssen Pharmaceutical Prize
- Co-founder of the contract research company SELACT (now KIADIS)
- Founder and director of the Center for Systems Chemistry at the University of Groningen
- International Scientific Advisory Board Max-Planck Institute fuer Kohlenforschung, Muhlheim (former member and chair 2001-2005), Germany
- Member International Scientific Evaluation Committee Wissenschaftsrat Germany 2007
- President European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, ESOC-12, 2001, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Member international scientific evaluation committee 2011, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Member evaluation committee Topinitiatives DFG, Germany
- Co-chair and Organizer International CD conference 2007 (with E.W. Meijer)
- President 2009 Burgenstock Conference, Switzerland
- Co-Chair and organiser ArmChemFront 2013 Conference
- Former chair Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2010-2014