Tirayut Vilaivan obtained his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Oxford in 1996. In the same year, he started his career at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University where he is currently a Professor of Chemistry. He has also held the position of Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science, taking care of research affairs since 2015. His research focuses on the development of efficient and environmentally friendly synthetic methodologies for creating molecules with desirable properties including drugs, bioactive compounds, fluorescent dyes, chemical sensors, biosensors, renewable chemicals, and unnatural molecules with potential applications such as in peptide nucleic acids.
