Dominic Tildesley

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]

Professor

Dominic Tildesley
Tildesley in December 2014
Born1952 (age 6869)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
OccupationChemist
Known forPresident of the Royal Society of Chemistry (July 2014 - present)

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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