Professor Victor Snieckus, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Victor Snieckus was born in Lithuania and spent his childhood in Germany during World War II and migrated to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Calgary, Alberta, soon thereafter.

Education: B.Sc., University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (organic chemistry awakening by the inspirational teacher, Rube Sandin); Ph.D., University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA (firsts steps towards understanding of synthesis under the iconoclastic Virgil Boekelheide); NSERC Post Doctoral Fellow, NRC Laboratories, Ottawa, Canada (forever infected by to pursue research by the enthusiastic Ted Edwards).

Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, Bader Chair in Organic Chemistry,1998 -

Publications Over 300 publications, 64 reviews and three books.

Training Trained 100 graduate students (Ph.D and M.Sc.) and over 100 postdoctoral fellows.

Honours and Awards (selected, since 1993)

1993 The Alfred Bader Award in Organic Chemistry

1993 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

1996 Glaxo Welcome Professorship, Duke University

1996 Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt-Forschungspreis)

1997 R.U. Lemieux Award for Organic Chemistry

2000 100 Milestones of 20th Century Canadian Chemistry Award

2001 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award

2001 International Society for Heterocyclic Chemistry Award

2001 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Invitational Fellowship

2001 AstraZeneca Excellence Award in Organic Synthesis

2002 Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas of the Republic of Lithuania

2003 Craig Visiting Professor, Australian National University, Canberra

2003 Arfvedson-Schlenk Award of the GDCh

2005 Bernard Belleau Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry

2005 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship

2005 Sanofi-Aventis Vision Lecturer

2006 AstraZeneca Canada Lecturer

2006 GSK Visiting Professorship, Durham University, UK

Victor Snieckus has also been recognized as the 2010 Laureate of the Republic of Lithuania in the Field of Physical, Biomedical, and Technological Sciences for his lifetime scholarly and research achievements as a Lithuanian scientist working abroad.