| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Dominic Tildesley | |
| Birth Place: | Forest Hill, London, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Chemist |
| Known For: | President 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 French: [[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.[4] [5]