Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Dominic Tildesley
British chemist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
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]
Remove ads
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads