ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Elections 2025: Voting now open for members

Voting is now open for ºÚÁÏÉçÇø 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. .
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 FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Henrey Dube CSci CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Athan Fox FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Jeremy Frey CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Juergen Harter MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Ida Marcia Philbin CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Jeremy Shears FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected member of the Member Communities Board – Early Career (one vacancy)
- Siyuan Dong AMºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Fatiha Hammed
- Wai Hin Lee MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Emmanuel Ohaekenyem AMºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Oliver Thomas AMºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected member of the Professional Standards Board (one vacancy)
- Adam Berlie MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Dario Castiglione CSci CChem MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Sherif Fahmy MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Yingjun Liu FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected members of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee (two vacancies)
- Ivan Addae-Mensah FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Adebola Adeyi FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Rebecca Butler CSci CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Christina Dumitriu Jackson
- Jane Essex CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Paulette Greenidge FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Catherine Jackson CChem MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Matthew Kitching MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Julieta Milian MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Jean O’Donoghue
- Ganiyat Oloyede FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Mark Parry MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Taryn Reid MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Kehinde Ross
- TeghTegh Samoh MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Tanja van Mourik CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Nelson Viegas CChem MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Neha Yadav AMºÚÁÏÉçÇø
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 MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Aiguo Wu FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
President of the Education Community (one vacancy)
- Katherine Haxton MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Lindsey Munro MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Jacquie Robson MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Fraser Scott CSciTeach CSci CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
President of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Community (one vacancy)
- Xu Hou FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Constantinos Theodoropoulos FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Kevin West CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected members of the Analytical Science Community Council (two vacancies)
- Alistair Fielding MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Carol Crean FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Suresh Kailasa FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Gloria Pereira
- Ali Salehi-Reyhani
Elected members of the Chemistry Biology Interface Community Council (two vacancies)
- Charlotte Dodson CChem MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Henry Egharevba MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Lakshminarayanan Kalaiarasu AMºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Palaniandavar Mallayan FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Lallan Mishra FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected members of the Dalton Community Council (two vacancies)
- Rosa Arrigo MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Richard Collins MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- George Kostakis FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Stephen Mansell CChem MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Mrituanjay Pandey FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Andrew Weller FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected member of the Education Community Council (one vacancy)
- Anna Bertram CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Adam Davis CSci MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Mark Elliott CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Julieta Milian MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Saskia O’Sullivan MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Thomas Scott
- Sharon Smith
- Kristy Turner FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Peter Unitt MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Dylan Williams MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected members of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Community Council (two vacancies)
- Samson Akpotu MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Jiaping Paul Chen FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Giovambattista Depietra CChem MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Victor Egbeneje AMºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Ziad Khalifa
- Zhe Li FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Simon Philbin EurChem CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Yuanting Qiao AMºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Lance Shaw FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Gemma Shearman MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Robert Sparkes MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Mengnan Wang MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Sisira Weliwegamage MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Xiangling Yue MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected members of the Faraday Community for Physical Chemistry (two vacancies)
- Paul Brewer CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Helen Fielding CChem FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Ketan Kuperkar MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Gregory Price CChem MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Michael Ruggiero MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Wilfred Tysoe FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected members of the Materials Chemistry Community Council (two vacancies)
- Heather Au
- Robert Dawson MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Sapnesh Jayswal CSci MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Zhe Liu FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Hui Luo MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Sharali Malik EurChem CChem MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Micaela Matta
- Yogendra Mishra FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Juliana Maria Abreu da Silva Morbec
- Petra Szilagyi FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Yongmei Zheng FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
Elected members of the Organic Chemistry Community Council (two vacancies)
- Boluwaji Adeniyi MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Edward Emmett MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Anjoud Harmouzi AMºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Marc Kimber MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Gregory Perry MºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Frank Rwegoshora AMºÚÁÏÉçÇø
- Nadeem Sheikh FºÚÁÏÉçÇø
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 .
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.
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