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Ilan Marek

Ilan Marek is a French-Israeli chemist and professor at the Technion who works on organic synthesis.

born 1963Stereoselective organic synthesis methodsChemistry professorship at the TechnionEditing the Patai chemistry series

Born: 15 February 1963, Haifa
Occupation: chemist, biochemist, university teacher
Education: Pierre and Marie Curie University, UCLouvain

Ilan Marek was born in 1963 in Haifa

Ilan Marek was born on 15 February 1963 in Haifa. He later moved to France. He is married to Cécile, and they have 3 children.

He studied at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1983, a master's in chemistry in 1986, and a doctorate under Jean Normant in 1988. He then did postdoctoral work with Leon Ghosez at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.

In 1990 he joined the French national research center CNRS in Paris. In 1997 he moved to Israel and joined the Technion's chemistry faculty. He became an associate professor in 2000 and a full professor in 2004, and since 2005 he has held the Sir Michael and Lady Sobell Chair.

His research develops new methods to build complex organic molecules with several adjacent stereogenic centers in a single chemical step. He has served on the editorial boards of many chemistry journals and has been a visiting professor in several countries. He was president of the organic chemistry division of EuChemS from 2012 to 2015.

Since 2022 he has been a distinguished university professor and director of the Resnik Sustainability Center for Catalysis at the Technion. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Israel Academy of Sciences.