Prof. Mike Zaworotko was born in Wales in 1956 and received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Imperial College (1977) and the University of Alabama (1982), respectively. He served as a faculty member at Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia, Canada, from 1985-1998, at University of Winnipeg, Canada from 1998-99 and at the University of South Florida, USA, from 1999-2013. In 2013 he joined the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he currently serves as Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering, Science Foundation of Ireland Research Professor and co-director of the Synthesis and Solid-State Pharmaceutical Centre, www.sspc.ie

Professor Zaworotko has published over 400 peer reviewed papers and patents that have been cited over 50,000 times. H-index of 100, 90 publications with >100 citations; 3000 citations/year in 2018. In 2011, Thomson-Reuters listed him as the 20 ^th highest impact chemist since 2000: http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/misc/Top100Chemists2000-10/ and in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018 he was listed as a highly cited researcher in the field of Chemistry by Clarivate Analytics: www.highlycited.com.  In 2018 he was listed as a highly cited researcher in a second field, Pharmacology and Toxicology .