Professor Gill Reid chosen to become President of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Professor Gill Reid from the University of Southampton has been elected to become the Royal Society of Chemistry’s president-elect.
The Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, who completes her term as Southampton’s Head of Chemistry in July, will take up the role in summer 2022.
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is the world’s leading chemistry community, with over 50,000 members and 175 years of history advancing excellence in the chemical sciences.
Gill’s election follows a process in which members of the Society chose between five presidential candidates – the first time in its history to have had more than two candidates standing for election.
“I think the great thing about the RSC is the range of activities that it's involved in, and I've been lucky to be part of that for many years,” Gill says. “And just having an opportunity to influence the direction of the Royal Society of Chemistry and to further the benefits that the RSC brings to the chemical sciences, I'm excited, I'm honoured and really thrilled by the opportunity to do this.”
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Professor Gill Reid BSc, PhD, FRSC
Professor Gill Reid’s research focus on transition metal and main group coordination chemistry is motivated by both fundamental studies of new ligand types that explore the influence of new metal-ligand combinations on properties and reactivity, as well as more application driven targets, that include developing tailored precursor complexes for the controlled deposition of inorganic semiconductor materials for electronic and thermoelectric devices (using area selective chemical vapour deposition and electrodeposition) and new metal fluoride scaffolds for medical imaging applications.
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