Dominic Tildesley

OccupationChemistKnown 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]

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