Hendrik (Henk) Bolink obtained his PhD in Materials Science at the University of Groningen in 1997 under the supervision of Prof. Hadziioannou. After that he worked at DSM as a materials scientist and project manager in the central research and new business development department, respectively. In 2001 he joined Philips, to lead the materials development activity of Philips´s PolyLED project.

Since 2003 he is at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol) of the University of Valencia where he initiated a research line on molecular opto-eletronic devices. He directed 25 PhD thesis and has been PI of ca. 20 industry funded research projects and of 18 European funded projects. In 2019 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.

Currently his research group encompasses 26 persons, and he is supervising 11 PhD students. With over 345 publications, 15 patents and an H-index of 80 (WoS). His current research interests encompass: inorganic/organic hybrid materials such as transition metal complexes and perovskites and their integration in LEDs and solar cells.