Dominic Tildesley

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Dominic Tildesley
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Tildesley in December 2014
Born1952 (age 7273)
Forest Hill, London, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Occupation Chemist
Known forPresident of the Royal Society of Chemistry (July 2014 – present)

Dominic Tildesley (born 1952, Forest Hill [1] ) is a British chemist. He gained his undergraduate chemistry degree from the University of Southampton in 1973. [2] He went on to complete a DPhil at Oxford University in 1976 before undertaking postdoctoral research at Penn State and Cornell universities in the United States. [3] He returned to the University of Southampton in the UK for a lectureship, before becoming professor of theoretical chemistry and moving to Imperial College London in 1996 as Professor of Computational Chemistry. [3]

He began his industrial career in 1998 when he took the role of head of the Physical Science Group at Unilever Research Port Sunlight, where he remained until 2012. [3] He is director of the European Centre for Atomic and Molecular Computation at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. [3]

In July 2014, he became president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (succeeding Professor Lesley Yellowlees) and received an honorary degree from the University of Southampton. [2] [4] [5]

References

  1. See audio file
  2. 1 2 "Professor Dominic Tildesley (1973, Chemistry) made president of Royal Society of Chemistry". Exeter College Oxford. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "New RSC President". Chemistry Views. 9 July 2014.
  4. "Royal Society of Chemistry welcomes new president". Royal Society of Chemistry. 17 July 2014.
  5. "Direction". CECAM. Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2014.