Wilhelm Huck is Professor of Physical Organic Chemistry at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. After postdoctoral research at Harvard University, he took up a position in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, where he was promoted to Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis (2004) and Full Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry (2007). In 2010 he moved to Radboud University, where he completely changed research fields to focus on understanding how living cells function and where they come from. He received the Spinoza Prize (2016), a VICI award (2011) and two ERC Advanced Grants (2010 & 2019). Prof. Huck is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His group uses microfluidics, and, increasingly, AI and robotics, to study the dynamics of complex chemical reaction networks. He was co-PI on two Gravitation Grants and co-PI on a SUMMIT grant to build a synthetic cell. He is lead-PI and scientific director of the recently awarded 97 M Euro National Growth Fund initiative on Big Chemistry aiming to integrate chemistry and AI in the study of complex molecular systems.