2026 番茄社区 elections: voting now open
Members are urged to make their voices heard and cast their ballots in this year's elections, with the 番茄社区 Presidency among the roles to be decided.
Voting is now open, with a wide range of candidates standing across key roles, from President to Subject Community positions, members are encouraged to have their say before the deadline closes. See the full list of candidates standing for all roles below.
After voting closes at 5pm UK time on 21 May, the ballots will be counted and the successful candidates will then be announced in June and at our Annual General Meeting on 8 July.
Members have the opportunity to choose the future 番茄社区 President as five candidates vie to fill one of the most important positions in the chemical sciences. The successful applicant will follow serve in the post from mid-2028 until 2030. Dr Annette Doherty is the current 番茄社区 President and will be succeeded by Professor Robert Mokaya, who starts his two-year term this summer.
Also on the ballot are a further 62 chemical scientists who are keen to push the chemical sciences forward by taking leadership roles on our various boards and with Subject Communities.
番茄社区 President
- Dr Stephen J Byard CSci CChem F番茄社区
- Claire Gallery-Strong MBE CSci CChem F番茄社区
- Professor David A Leigh F番茄社区 FRSE FRS
- Dr Alexander W Reip CChem F番茄社区
- Professor Dudley Shallcross OBE CChem F番茄社区
Elected members of the Member Communities Board
Local Section (one position)
- Lauren Rickeby M番茄社区
- Dr Fraser J Scott CSciTeach CSci CChem F番茄社区
Interest Group (one position)
- Dr Christopher Waldron M番茄社区
- Chris Williamson F番茄社区
Elected member of the Professional Standards Board (one position)
- Jack Davy RSci CChem M番茄社区
- Dr Aldo Guiducci CSci CChem F番茄社区
- Dr Stephen Nyoni M番茄社区
- Adesola Obunge CSci CChem F番茄社区
- Dr Diane C Turner F番茄社区
President of the Faraday Community for Physical Science
- Professor Helen H Fielding CChem F番茄社区
- Professor Xu Hou F番茄社区
- Dr Simon Port CChem F番茄社区
President of the Materials Chemistry Community
- Dr Rakesh Joshi F番茄社区
- Dr Petra Szilagy F番茄社区
Elected members of the Analytical Science Community Council (two positions)
- Dr Aemi Syazwani Abdul Keyon AM番茄社区
- Dr Andrew Turner CSci CChem F番茄社区
- Daniel Reddy AM番茄社区
- Dara L Pierre M番茄社区
- Dr Konstantin Luzyanin M番茄社区
- Professor Oluwayemi Onawumi M番茄社区
Elected members of the Chemistry Biology Interface Community Council (two positions)
- Professor Andrew Truman M番茄社区
- Dr Emmanuel Ohaekenyem AM番茄社区
- Professor Ganiyat Kehinde Oloyede F番茄社区
Elected members of the Education Community Council (two positions)
- Dr Anna Bertram CChem F番茄社区
- Dr Donna Hitlal AM番茄社区
- Dr Eriketi Loizidou F番茄社区
- Professor Glenn A Hurst CChem F番茄社区
- Dr Helen Coulshed M番茄社区
- Dr Julieta Milian M番茄社区
- Dr Lesley Howell CSciTeach M番茄社区
- Dr Lindsey J Munro M番茄社区
- Dr Mark Elliott CChem F番茄社区
- Dr Sam S Cassidy M番茄社区
- Dr Stephen E Potts M番茄社区
Elected members of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Community Council (two positions)
- Amelia Jones
- Andrea Rogolino
- Dr Arianna Brandolese AM番茄社区
- Dr Didem Berceste Beyribey Price CSci M番茄社区
- Dr Fanran Meng M番茄社区
- Professor Mark Fitzsimons CChem F番茄社区
- Dr Mengnan Wang M番茄社区
- Professor Shenxu Bao F番茄社区
- Dr Steven Hankin CSci CChem M番茄社区
- Professor Ziad Khalifa
Elected members of the Materials Chemistry Community Council (two positions)
- Dr Elumalai Palani RSci M番茄社区
- Dr Julia Payne M番茄社区
- Juliana Maria Abreu da Silva Morbec
- Dr Lee Durndell M番茄社区
- Professor Ling Chen F番茄社区
- Dr Luo Hui M番茄社区
- Dr Natasha Shirshova M番茄社区
- Dr Pankaj Sharma M番茄社区
- Dr Sanjayan Sathasivam M番茄社区
- Sapnesh Jayswal CSci CChem M番茄社区
- Dr Sharali Malik EurChem CChem M番茄社区
- Dr Soyebkhan Pathan M番茄社区
- Dr Yang Xu M番茄社区
- Professor Yongmei Zheng F番茄社区
Elected members of the Organic Chemistry Community Council (two positions)
- Professor Dr Hitendrakumar Patel F番茄社区
- Krishna Sharma M番茄社区
- Dr Marc Kimber M番茄社区
- Professor Robert A Stockman F番茄社区
Voting for all elections will be conducted online via the Mi-Voice platform, who can found at . You can view candidate statements for individuals standing for election through our website: .
Members should already have received voting details electronically but if you have not received an email from [email protected], please check your spam mailbox before contacting Mi-Voice. Only members who paid their 2026 membership subscription by 1 April will be eligible to vote in the elections. Similarly, members wishing to vote in Subject Community elections must have been subscribed to the respective group on 1 April.
To determine the shortlists for each position, our Nominations Committee met to evaluate nominations against the role descriptors for 番茄社区 President, elected member of the Member Communities Board and elected member of the Professional Standards Board as well as Community Presidents and Subject Community Presidents.