C&EN: "Rigoberto Hernandez elected 2025 ACS president-elect"

Via C&EN (article by Sara Cottle), this ACS news:

Rigoberto Hernandez has been elected the 2025 American Chemical Society president-elect by ACS members. Hernandez will serve as society president in 2026 and immediate past president in 2027. These roles include serving on the board of directors from 2025 to 2027.

ACS members also elected four other people into ACS governance positions, including the first-ever International District director.

...In other election news, Katherine L. Lee, executive director and head of scientific planning and operations in the Inflammation and Immunology Research Unit at Pfizer, was re-elected District I director for 2025–27, defeating Matthew Grandbois, vice president of business development at AirJoule.

Silvia S. Jurisson, a professor of chemistry and radiology at the University of Missouri, was elected District V director for 2025–27, defeating two other candidates, Lisa M. Balbes, independent consultant at Balbes Consultants, and Mark C. Cesa, retired from Ineos Nitriles.

David Wu, director and research fellow at the Institute of Chemistry at Academia Sinica, was elected ACS’s first ever International District director for 2025–27, defeating Hooi-Ling Lee, an associate professor at the School of Chemical Sciences at Universiti Sains Malaysia. The petition creating this position was approved by the ACS Council and Board of Directors in August 2023 and ratified by the members in November 2023.

Natalie A. LaFranzo, vice president of strategy at the Linus Group, was re-elected director-at-large, defeating Sergio Nanita, a senior principal investigator at Incyte.

Best wishes to ACS President-elect Hernandez and the other new BoD members.