Bert Weckhuysen is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at Utrecht University. He was a winner of the 2013 Spinoza Prize. In 2006 Weckhuysen received the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) Golden Medal. On 24 April 2015 he was made Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion Weckhuysen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.