Professor Verpoorte, Natural Products Laboratory, Institute Biology Leiden, Leiden University (PO Box 9505, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands, tel. +31 +71 5274528, fax 5274511, Email VERPOORT@chem.LeidenUniv.NLHe holds a Pharmacists degree (1972) and a PhD (1976) from Leiden. He was lecturer at Leiden University 1976-1987, and since 1987 professor and head of the department of Pharmacognosy. Since 201 he is as Emeritus professor, still connected to Leiden University. He was guest professor in London (UK), Uppsala (Sweden), Amiens (France), Reims (France), Seoul (Korea) and Hilo (USA). From 1992-1998 he was Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the committee of the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE). Since May 2011 he is professor Emeritus at Leiden University. He received an Honorary Doctorate University of Amiens, France (2004) and of the University of Uppsala, Sweden (2012). In 2007 he received the Phytochemical Society of Europe Medal. He is an honorary professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University since 2015. In 2015 he was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize in Manila, The Philippines. September 2017 he was awarded the Egon Stahl Medal in Gold by the International Society of Medicinal Plants and Natural Products Research for his lifetime scientific work. In 2017 recipient of Qihuang International Prize of the China Association of Chinese Medicine. He is among the 0.1% Highly Cited Researchers 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 (Cross-Field) (Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics). He is among the 2% top scientists in the world in a recent Stanford study (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), ranking on position 42 worldwide in the field of Chemistry (2022, out of 171,526 authors).He is author/co-author of 810+ scientific papers, 4 books and 7 patent applications. March 2022 H factor 81 (Web of Science), 114 (Google Scholar) 92 (Scopus). Editor (1996-2002) and Editor-in-chief of Journal of Ethnopharmacology (IF2021 5.090) (2003-2016) and Phytochemical Reviews (IF2021 7.741) (since 2001), and Executive Editor of Biotechnology Letters (IF2021 2.716) (since 2006). He serves on the editorial board of number of journals. He is some 20 times per year invited for lectures all over the world in the past 15 years. He serves as reviewer for numerous journals. He supervised 70 PhD-theses, and 150+ MSc theses.