Dominic Tildesley (born 1952, Forest Hill[1]) is a British chemist.

[3] He returned to the University of Southampton in the UK for a lectureship, before becoming professor of theoretical chemistry and moving to Imperial College London in 1996 as Professor of Computational Chemistry.

[3] He began his industrial career in 1998 when he took the role of head of the Physical Science Group at Unilever Research Port Sunlight, where he remained until 2012.

[3] He is director of the European Centre for Atomic and Molecular Computation at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

[3] In July 2014, he became president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (succeeding Professor Lesley Yellowlees) and received an honorary degree from the University of Southampton.