Professor Richard Compton elected to Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

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Date 8 July 2021

Congratulations to Professor Richard Compton, Tutorial Fellow in Chemistry at St John’s, who has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences at the General Assembly held on June 22, 2021.

Professor Richard ComptonThe Lithuanian Academy of Sciences was founded on January 16, 1941 and aims to bring together the most distinguished scientists from Lithuania and abroad whose academic activities are related to Lithuania. Professor Compton will be inaugurated into the Academy during the next General Assembly on September 21, 2021, when he will also give an inaugural lecture.

Professor Compton is Group Leader of The Compton Group, which has a wide range of interests from fundamental electrochemistry to making chemical sensors, and is at the forefront of international research in electrochemistry. Professor Compton is also the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Electrochemistry Communications and the Co-Founding Editor and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, launched in 2017.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Compton on his election!