RSC Elections 2025: Voting now open for members
Voting is now open for RSC members in this year's all-important elections, with more than 100 nominees vying to fill 27 vacancies across our society.
Members have until 5pm UK time on 26 May to cast their ballots, with the winners announced at this summer’s Annual General Meeting on 7 July. A special webpage for the elections is now live for those looking to vote.
Competition is particularly fierce this year for a handful of roles, with the full candidate lists available to view below.
A remarkable 18 candidates are vying for two spots on the Inclusion and Diversity Committee, while 13 nominees are standing to fill two elected members positions on the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Community Council.
Meanwhile, 10 hopefuls are aiming for a place as the new elected member of the Education Community Council, with the same number also running to fill the two places on the Materials Community Council.
The shortlist, revealed in full below, comes after our Nominations Committee met to evaluate nominations against the role descriptors for several key roles. The group came together to look at all the applications for elected Trustee, elected member of the Member Communities Board, elected member of the Professional Standards Board and elected member of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee, and agreed a shortlist of candidates who met the person specification.
Elected Trustees (four vacancies)
- Jenny Boxwell CSci CChem FRSC
- Henrey Dube CSci CChem FRSC
- Athan Fox FRSC
- Jeremy Frey CChem FRSC
- Juergen Harter MRSC
- Ida Marcia Philbin CChem FRSC
- Jeremy Shears FRSC
Elected member of the Member Communities Board – Early Career (one vacancy)
- Siyuan Dong AMRSC
- Fatiha Hammed
- Wai Hin Lee MRSC
- Emmanuel Ohaekenyem AMRSC
- Oliver Thomas AMRSC
Elected member of the Professional Standards Board (one vacancy)
- Adam Berlie MRSC
- Dario Castiglione CSci CChem MRSC
- Sherif Fahmy MRSC
- Yingjun Liu FRSC
Elected members of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee (two vacancies)
- Ivan Addae-Mensah FRSC
- Adebola Adeyi FRSC
- Rebecca Butler CSci CChem FRSC
- Christina Dumitriu Jackson
- Jane Essex CChem FRSC
- Paulette Greenidge FRSC
- Catherine Jackson CChem MRSC
- Matthew Kitching MRSC
- Julieta Milian MRSC
- Jean O’Donoghue
- Ganiyat Oloyede FRSC
- Mark Parry MRSC
- Taryn Reid MRSC
- Kehinde Ross
- TeghTegh Samoh MRSC
- Tanja van Mourik CChem FRSC
- Nelson Viegas CChem MRSC
- Neha Yadav AMRSC
The Nominations Committee also evaluated the nominations against the role descriptor for Subject Community President and agreed a shortlist of candidates who met the person specification. Voting will also take place to determine who the new elected members will be.
President of the Analytical Science Community (one vacancy)
- Victoria Hilborne MRSC
- Aiguo Wu FRSC
President of the Education Community (one vacancy)
- Katherine Haxton MRSC
- Lindsey Munro MRSC
- Jacquie Robson MRSC
- Fraser Scott CSciTeach CSci CChem FRSC
President of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Community (one vacancy)
- Xu Hou FRSC
- Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu FRSC
- Constantinos Theodoropoulos FRSC
- Kevin West CChem FRSC
Elected members of the Analytical Science Community Council (two vacancies)
- Alistair Fielding MRSC
- Carol Crean FRSC
- Suresh Kailasa FRSC
- Gloria Pereira
- Ali Salehi-Reyhani
Elected members of the Chemistry Biology Interface Community Council (two vacancies)
- Charlotte Dodson CChem MRSC
- Henry Egharevba MRSC
- Lakshminarayanan Kalaiarasu AMRSC
- Palaniandavar Mallayan FRSC
- Lallan Mishra FRSC
Elected members of the Dalton Community Council (two vacancies)
- Rosa Arrigo MRSC
- Richard Collins MRSC
- George Kostakis FRSC
- Stephen Mansell CChem MRSC
- Mrituanjay Pandey FRSC
- Andrew Weller FRSC
Elected member of the Education Community Council (one vacancy)
- Anna Bertram CChem FRSC
- Adam Davis CSci MRSC
- Mark Elliott CChem FRSC
- Julieta Milian MRSC
- Saskia O’Sullivan MRSC
- Thomas Scott
- Sharon Smith
- Kristy Turner FRSC
- Peter Unitt MRSC
- Dylan Williams MRSC
Elected members of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Community Council (two vacancies)
- Samson Akpotu MRSC
- Jiaping Paul Chen FRSC
- Giovambattista Depietra CChem MRSC
- Victor Egbeneje AMRSC
- Ziad Khalifa
- Zhe Li FRSC
- Simon Philbin EurChem CChem FRSC
- Yuanting Qiao AMRSC
- Lance Shaw FRSC
- Gemma Shearman MRSC
- Robert Sparkes MRSC
- Mengnan Wang MRSC
- Sisira Weliwegamage MRSC
- Xiangling Yue MRSC
Elected members of the Faraday Community for Physical Chemistry (two vacancies)
- Paul Brewer CChem FRSC
- Helen Fielding CChem FRSC
- Ketan Kuperkar MRSC
- Gregory Price CChem MRSC
- Michael Ruggiero MRSC
- Wilfred Tysoe FRSC
Elected members of the Materials Chemistry Community Council (two vacancies)
- Heather Au
- Robert Dawson MRSC
- Sapnesh Jayswal CSci MRSC
- Zhe Liu FRSC
- Hui Luo MRSC
- Sharali Malik EurChem CChem MRSC
- Micaela Matta
- Yogendra Mishra FRSC
- Juliana Maria Abreu da Silva Morbec
- Petra Szilagyi FRSC
- Yongmei Zheng FRSC
Elected members of the Organic Chemistry Community Council (two vacancies)
- Boluwaji Adeniyi MRSC
- Edward Emmett MRSC
- Anjoud Harmouzi AMRSC
- Marc Kimber MRSC
- Gregory Perry MRSC
- Frank Rwegoshora AMRSC
- Nadeem Sheikh FRSC
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 can view candidate statements through our elections page.
Only Members who had paid their 2025 membership subscription by the start of this month will be eligible to vote. To be eligible to vote in Subject Community elections, you must have subscribed to the respective Subject Community.
Now that voting is open, use the Vote with Mi-Voice link to view candidates standing in all RSC elections.
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