Dominic Tildesley
| Professor Dominic Tildesley | |||
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 Tildesley in December 2014 | |||
| Born |
1952 (age 63–64) Forest Hill, London, England | ||
| Nationality | British | ||
| Alma mater | |||
| Occupation | Chemist | ||
| Known for | President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (July 2014 - present) | ||
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Professor 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
- ↑ See audio file
- 1 2 "Professor Dominic Tildesley (1973, Chemistry) made president of Royal Society of Chemistry". Exeter College Oxford.
- 1 2 3 4 "New RSC President". Chemistry Views.
- ↑ "Royal Society of Chemistry welcomes new president". Royal Society of Chemistry.
- ↑ "Direction". CECAM.