Michael Zaworotko - Bernal Chair

Michael Zaworotko

Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering

Science Foundation of Ireland Research Professor

Prof. Mike Zaworotko was born in Wales in 1956 and received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Imperial College (1977) and the University of Alabama (1982), respectively. He served as a faculty member at Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia, Canada, from 1985-1998, at University of Winnipeg, Canada from 1998-99 and at the University of South Florida, USA, from 1999-2013. In 2013 he joined the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he currently serves as Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering, Science Foundation of Ireland Research Professor and co-director of the Synthesis and Solid-State Pharmaceutical Centre, www.sspc.ie

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Publications and Impact

Professor Zaworotko has published over 400 peer reviewed papers and patents that have been cited over 50,000 times. H-index of 100, 90 publications with >100 citations; 3000 citations/year in 2018. In 2011, Thomson-Reuters listed him as the 20 ^th highest impact chemist since 2000: http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/misc/Top100Chemists2000-10/ and in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018 he was listed as a highly cited researcher in the field of Chemistry by Clarivate Analytics: www.highlycited.com.  In 2018 he was listed as a highly cited researcher in a second field, Pharmacology and Toxicology .