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ACS President-Elect, Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez Chemistry is Everywhere Bio: Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez is the Gompf Family Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University since 2016, and the Director of the Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversity Equity (OXIDE). He is also a Professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He was born in Havana, Cuba and is a U.S. citizen by birthright. He holds a B.S.E. in chemical engineering and mathematics from Princeton University (1989), and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (1993). He has published over 190 articles in theoretical and computational chemistry and discipline-based diversity research in chemistry. He has been a member of the American Chemical Society since 1992.