Jay S. Siegel received his Ph.D. from Princeton (1985), was a Swiss Universities Fellow at ETH
Zurich (1983-4), and NSF–CNRS postdoctoral fellow at the University of Louis Pasteur
in Strasbourg (1985-6). He began as Assistant Professor of Chemistry (1986) at UCSD,
was promoted to Associate Professor (1992) and Full Professor (1996). In 2003, he
was appointed as Professor and co-director of the Organic chemistry institute of the
University of Zurich (UZH) and Director of its laboratory for process chemistry research
(LPF). He served as Dean of Studies and Head of the Research Council for the Faculty
of Sciences at UZH. He moved to Tianjin University in 2013 as dean, and joined the
Schools of Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences into a new Health Science Platform. His
research is in the area of Stereochemistry and Physical Organic Chemistry.
