Peter Maienfisch
Professor
East China Institute of Science & Technology
China
Biography
Peter Maienfisch studied chemistry at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland, where he received his PhD in 1983. After a post-doctoral stay at Caltech (Pasadena, CA, USA) Peter joined Animal Health Research of Ciba-Geigy in Basel in 1984 and became group leader in Insecticide Research in 1988. Following the creation of Novartis in 1996, he was appointed Head of Chemistry 2 in Crop Protection Research and with the creation of Syngenta in 2000 he became Group Leader Insecticide Chemistry, Analytics & Automation.
Research Interest
Since 2011 he leads the Insecticides & Seedcare Research Portfolio teams, responsible for research strategies and projects. His track record of innovation and successful introduction of new technologies includes authorship of more than 150 scientific papers and patents. Furthermore he is the inventor of thiamethoxam (Actara®, Cruiser®), and a co-organizer of many international congresses, including IUPAC Crop Protection congresses and the International Symposium on Fluorine in the Life Sciences on Bürgenstock. He is a member of the Swiss & American Chemical Societies and the CHIMIA Editorial Board.