Dominic Tildesley (born 1952, Forest HillSee audio file) is a British chemist. He gained his undergraduate

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degree from the

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in 1973. He went on to complete a DPhil at

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in 1976 before undertaking postdoctoral research at

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and

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universities in the United States. He returned to the University of Southampton in the UK for a lectureship, before becoming professor of theoretical chemistry and moving to

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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 in Switzerland. In July 2014, he became president of the

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(succeeding Professor Lesley Yellowlees) and received an honorary degree from the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tildesley, Dominic Living people English chemists Place of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the Royal Society of Chemistry Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Academics of Imperial College London Alumni of the University of Southampton 1952 births People from Forest Hill, London Computational chemists