Gary J. Schrobilgen is a Professor of Chemistry at McMaster University. He has made many contributions to the experimentally challenging field of synthetic and structural inorganic fluorine chemistry. His programs are heavily reliant upon the use of modern methods of structural elucidation, including multi-NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and vibrational spectroscopy, as well as quantum-chemical calculations, to characterize novel bonding situations among main-group and high-oxidation-state transition element species. His work encompasses the syntheses and structural characterization of a large percentage of the known compounds of krypton and xenon as well as fluoro- and oxofluoro-derivatives of the main-group and transition elements in their highest oxidation states and at the limits of coordination. Professor Schrobilgen is the recipient the American Chemical Society Award for Creative work in Fluorine Chemistry (1998) and several Canadian Society for Chemistry Awards. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1999) and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2013).