Antony Williams

Antony Williams is the VP of Strategic Development at the Royal Society of Chemistry and the original founder of ChemSpider, one of the world’s primary internet resources for chemists. He holds a BSc Hons I from the University of Liverpool and obtained his PhD from the University of London focused on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. He held a postdoctoral position at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada before joining the University of Ottawa as their NMR Facility Manager. He was the NMR Technology Leader at the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY for over five years before joining Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/Labs) where he became Chief Science Officer focusing his cheminformatics skills on structure representation, nomenclature and analytical data handling. He is known as the ChemConnector in the chemistry social network and is a blogger and active participant in Wikipedia Chemistry.