Dominic Tildesley

{{Short description|British chemist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=December 2014}}

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| honorific_prefix = Professor

| name = Dominic Tildesley

| image = Dominic Tildesley - 2014-12-03 - Andy Mabbett.JPG

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| caption = Tildesley in December 2014

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1952}}

| birth_place = Forest Hill, London, England

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| nationality = British

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| occupation = Chemist

| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|

• University of Southampton
• Oxford University

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| known_for = President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (July 2014 – present)

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Dominic Tildesley (born 1952, Forest HillSee audio file) is a British chemist. He gained his undergraduate chemistry degree from the University of Southampton in 1973.{{cite web|title=Professor Dominic Tildesley (1973, Chemistry) made president of Royal Society of Chemistry|url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/node/1523|publisher=Exeter College Oxford|access-date=3 December 2014|archive-date=18 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140818111618/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/node/1523|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|title=New RSC President|date=9 July 2014 |url=http://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/5690851/New_RSC_President.html|publisher=Chemistry Views}} 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.

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. He is director of the European Centre for Atomic and Molecular Computation at the {{lang|fr|Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne}} in Switzerland.

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2014/jul/dominic-tildesley-new-president/|title=Royal Society of Chemistry welcomes new president|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cecam.org/director.html|title=Direction|publisher=CECAM|access-date=3 December 2014|archive-date=30 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430135614/http://www.cecam.org/director.html|url-status=dead}}