Leadership

The main governing body of the American Crystallographic Association is the Council. The Council, which meets two to three times per year, sets policy and has the ultimate responsibility for the actions of the association. It is composed of a president, vice president, Canadian representative, secretary and treasurer. The membership elects these officers and each serves a three-year term, commencing on January 1st.

Ex-officio members appointed by the Council are the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. A representative of the Young Scientist Scientific Interest Group is also an ex-officio member. The YSIG makes this appointment on an annual basis. A representative from the International Union of Crystallography may attend Council Meetings but has no voting privileges.

2021 ACA Executive Council Members:
President: David Rose Department of Biology | University of Waterloo
Vice President: Diana R. Tomchick UT Southwestern Medical Center | Departments of Biophysics & Biochemistry
Immediate Past President:  Brian H. Toby Advanced Photon Source | Argonne National Laboratory
Canadian Representative: Gerald Audette Department of Chemistry | York University
Secretary: Kushol Gupta University of Pennsylvania
Treasurer: Ilia A. Guzei University of Wisconsin-Madison
2021 Council Appointments
YSIG Representative:  Chelsy Chesterman  GlaxoSmithKline
IUCr Representative: Hanna Dabkowska McMaster University
Executive Director: Kristin H. Stevens
US National Division
President 2021 Tamir Gonen  University of California, Los Angeles
Secretary/Treasurer 2021 Eric Reinheimer Rigaku
2020 Non-Council Appointments
RefleXions Editor: Paul Swepston
Historian: Virginia Pett
ACA/AIP Representatives
Member of AIP Publishing’s Board of Managers & Publishing Partnerships Committee: Thomas Koetzle
Member of AIP Publishing’s Publishing Partnerships Committee: Charles Carter
ACA Member of the AIP Board of Directors: Efrain Rodriguez
ACA Representatives to AIP Liaison Committees
ACA Representative to the AIP Liaison Committee on Underrepresented Minorities (LCURM): Krystal McLaughlin (Term Ending 2021)
ACA Representative to the AIP Liaison Committee on History (LCH) Miriam Rossi (Term Ending 2022)
ACA Representative to the AIP Liaison Committee on Public Policy (LCPP) Steven Sheriff (Term Ending 2022)
ACA Representative to the AIP Liaison Committee on Education (LCED) Kraig Wheeler (Term Ending 2022)
Structural Dynamics
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Majed Chergui
Structural Dynamics Board of Managers Prof John R. Helliwell S.N. Rao Jason Wilde
ACA Headquarters
Membership Secretary Kristina Vitale