RSC elections 2023: nominees revealed ahead of voting period

Dozens of nominees will be on the ballot for the Royal Society of Chemistry's upcoming elections.

The Nominations Committee met to evaluate nominations against the role descriptors as we look to appoint new elected members of the Board of Trustees, elected member of the Member Communities Board and elected member of the Professional Standards Board.

Now they have agreed on a shortlist of candidates, each of whom has met the person specifications for the role of their choosing. Voting will open on Wednesday, 10 May 2023.

The following candidates have been put forward for election:

Elected Trustees

• Stephen Byard CSci CChem FRSC
• Edwin Constable CChem FRSC CorrFRSE
• Jamil Khan CChem FRSC
• Aline Miller FRSC
• Alexander Reip CChem FRSC
• John Seddon CSci CChem FRSC
• Mark Weller FRSC
• Sam Whitehouse CChem FRSC

Elected member of the Member Communities Board

Interest Group representative

• Jonathan Bourne FRSC
• Rowena Lucy Fletcher-Wood CChem MRSC
• Elizabeth Page CChem FRSC
• Alberto Saiani RSC                                                                            

Local Section representative

• Helen Blanchard FRSC
• Tariq Javed FRSC
• Deepa Khushalani FRSC
• Karen Marshall FRSC
• Venkateswarlu Peesapati FRSC
• Richard Whewell EurChem FRSC
• Sharon Williams MRSC
• Laura Yates CChem MRSC
• Channabasaveshwar Yelamaggad FRSC

Elected member of the Professional Standards Board

• Maria Inmaculada AndresTome MRSC
• Clive Brading CSci CChem FRSC
• Philippa Cranwell CChem MRSC
• Henry Dube CSci CChem FRSC
• Pravin Ingole
• Andrew Leach CSci CChem MRSC
• Ailsa Lynch CChem MRSC
• Sandile Phinda Songca FRSC
• Debra Willison CChem FRSC
• Christopher Wright CChem FRSC

Elections will also be held for Subject Communities and the candidates are:

President of the Faraday Community for Physical Chemistry

• Xu Hou MRSC
• Yi-Tao Long FRSC
• Andrew Mount CChem FRSC

President of the Materials Chemistry Community

• Liberato Manna FRSC
• Neil Robertson CChem FRSC
• David Scanlon FRSC

Elected member of the Analytical Science Community Council

• Karen Faulds FRSC FRSE
• Amarnath Mishra MRSC
• Caroline Pollard
• Julian Rae FRSC
• Christopher Waldron MRSC
• Claire White RSci MRSC
• Yi-Lun Ying MRSC

Elected member of the Chemistry Biology Interface Community Council

• Afaf El-Sagheer MRSC
• Parasuraman Jaisankar FRSC
• Sadhna Mathura MRSC
• Samiran Mondal MRSC
• Andrew Truman MRSC

Elected member of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Community Council

• Amr Heikal CChem FRSC
• Sheena Hindocha MRSC
• Samual Perry MRSC
• Era Upadhyay

Elected member of the Faraday Community for Physical Chemistry

• R M Gamini Rajapakse FRSC
• Ranjan Dey FRSC
• Ketan Kuperkar MRSC
• Andrew Logsdail CChem MRSC

Elected member of the Materials Chemistry Community Council

• Stephen Eichhorn FRSC
• Lei Fang FRSC
• Alex Ganose MRSC
• Robert Hoye MRSC
• Caroline Knapp MRSC
• Tong Lin FRSC
• Soumya Mukherjee MRSC
• Ioannis Mylonas-Margaritis MRSC
• Ahsan Qurashi FRSC
• Maria Veronica Sofianos MRSC
• Humphrey Yiu CSci CChem MRSC

Elected member of the Organic Chemistry Community Council

• Mukund Chorghade CChem FRSC
• Adrian Dobbs CChem FRSC
• Andrew Jamieson FRSC
• Ganiyat Kehinde Oloyede FRSC
• Hitendrakumar Patel FRSC
• Teghtegh Samoh MRSC

What happens next?

All members of the Royal Society of Chemistry and members of the respective Subject Community will be contacted by Mi-Voice with information on how to vote online. In addition, you will be able to view candidate statements for individuals standing for election through our website.

If you have not received an email from elections@mi-voice.com, please check your spam/junk mailbox in the first instance.

Voting opens on Wednesday, 10 May 2023 and closes at 17:00 (UK time) on Wednesday, 7 June 2023. Successful candidates will be announced at our hybrid Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, 12 July 2023.