Timothy Noël obtained his PhD from Ghent University in 2009 at the Laboratory for Organic and Bioorganic Synthesis. Next, he crossed the ocean to work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow on the development of new continuous-flow methods for cross-coupling chemistry. In 2012 he moved to Eindhoven University of Technology to become an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2017. He joined the University of Amsterdam in 2020 as Full Professor of Flow Chemistry at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences. His research interests are flow chemistry, homogeneous catalysis and organic synthesis.

He received for his work several recognitions, including the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award, the DECHEMA award, the Hoogewerff Jongerenprijs and the IUPAC-Thalesnano Flow Chemistry Award. He also serves as the editor in chief of the Journal of Flow Chemistry since 2019.