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Anthony Williams

VP of Strategic Development, Royal Society of Chemistry
Antony Williams is the VP of Strategic Development for the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has a PhD in chemistry and has worked in academia, in government labs and for a Fortune 500 company before running two start-ups. He started a hobby project to build one of the community’s primary online chemistry resources, which was ultimately acquired by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is widely published with almost 200 publications, book chapters and books. He has worked on the quality of chemistry content on Wikipedia and is a recipient of the Jim Gray award for eScience from Microsoft. He is adjunct professor at North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is particularly focused at this time in helping scientists understand the power of the web for encouraging crowd sourced participation and social networking in science. He is known as @ChemConnector in the social networks.