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.

2023 ACA Executive Council Members:
President: Cora Lind-Kovacs The University of Toledo
Vice President: Allen Oliver Notre Dame
Immediate Past President:  Diana R. Tomchick UT Southwestern Medical Center | Departments of Biophysics & Biochemistry
Canadian Representative: Sara Andres  McMaster University
Secretary: Kushol Gupta University of Pennsylvania
Treasurer: Stephan Ginell Hauptman-Woodward Research Institute
2023 Council Appointments
YSIG Representative:  Kenneth Childers  Western Washington University
IUCr Representative: Thomas Proffen Neutron Scattering Sciences Div, Oak Ridge National Lab
Executive Director: Kristin H. Stevens
US National Division
President 22-24 Tamir Gonen  University of California, Los Angeles
Secretary/Treasurer 2021-23 Eric Reinheimer Rigaku
2023 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 2023)
ACA Representative to the AIP Liaison Committee on Public Policy (LCPP) Steven Sheriff (Term Ending 2024)
ACA Representative to the AIP Liaison Committee on Education (LCED) Karen Glass (Term Ending 2024)
Structural Dynamics
Editor-in-Chief: George N. Phillips, Jr.
Structural Dynamics Board of Managers Prof John R. Helliwell S.N. Rao Penelope Lewis
ACA Headquarters
Membership Secretary Kristina Vitale