Tom Welton
President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at Imperial College London, Member of The Inclusion & Diversity Advisory Board of Elsevier
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Tom Welton is currently President of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at Imperial College London. He is the author of over 150 research papers, mostly on the structures and chemistry of ionic liquids and solutes in these. Prior to this he was Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College (2014-2019), and before that Head of the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College (2007-2014). He is widely acknowledged to be a champion of diversity in science and was head of department when the Chemistry department at Imperial College won its first Athena SWAN Gold award. Together with Alison Roger of the University of Warwick, he founded the Irene Juliot-Curie conference series. He is a L’Oréal-UNESCO Male Champion for Women in Science, a member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion advisory boards of both UKRI and Elsevier. In recognition of these activities, he was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2017.
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