Wolfgang Meier studied Chemistry at the Universty of Freiburg and received his Ph.D. degree in Macromolecular Chemistry in 1992.  In 1996 he was appointed as a lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel where he received his ‚Habilitation’ in 1998. In 2001 he was appointed as a professor at the International University of Bremen and since 2003 he is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Basel. He received several awards (Ruzicka-Price, 2001; Hermann-Staudinger-Price, 2006) for his research.

His main research interests are in the field of hierarchical self-assembly of functional polymers, and polymer-protein hybrid materials.