Rigoberto Hernandez elected 2025 ACS president-elect

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. A total of 10,907 votes were cast for president-elect. The total voter turnout was 11.34% of all eligible voters. Hernandez won the president-elect race against Laura Sremaniak, teaching professor and associate department head in the Department of Chemistry at North Carolina State University, and petition candidate Mukund S. Chorghade, chief scientific officer at Thinq Pharma. “This is awesome,” Hernandez, a professor of chemistry and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University, says. “I had a platform: ACS first, ACS for all, ACS for life. And I’m really excited about pursuing those three areas.”