Speaker

Tom W. Muir received his B.Sc in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the same institute in 1993 under the direction of the late Professor Robert Ramage, FRS. Following postdoc studies with Stephen B.H. Kent at The Scripps Research Institute, Muir joined the faculty of The Rockefeller University in 1996, where he rose through the ranks eventually being appointed the Richard E. Salomon Family Professor and Director of the Pels Center of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Structural Biology. In 2011, Dr. Muir joined the faculty of Princeton University as the Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of ’65 Professor of Chemistry, serving as Chair of the Chemistry Department from 2015-2020. He works in the area of chemical biology and is best known for developing methods for the preparation of proteins containing unnatural amino acids, posttranslational modifications and spectroscopic probes. Professor Muir has won a number of honors for his research most recently the 2026 BMS Award in Enzyme Chemistry and the 2026 Ralph Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry, both from the American Chemical Society. Dr. Muir is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

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