Leroy Cronin

Leroy Cronin
Professor Lee Cronin in Glasgow
Born	(1973-06-01) 1 June 1973 (age 43)
Residence	Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Nationality	British
Fields	Chemistry, Nanoscience, Self Assembly, Systems Chemistry, Complex Chemical Systems, Inorganic Biology, Supramolecular chemistry, Self-organization, 3D printing
Institutions	University of Glasgow University of Birmingham Research Institute for Electronic Science, University of Hokkaido University of Bielefeld University of Edinburgh
Alma mater	University of York
Doctoral advisor	Paul. H. Walton
Known for	Chemistry, Nanoscience,Self Assembly, Nanotechnology, Polyoxometalates,Supramolecular chemistry, Self-organization, 3D printing
Notable awards	Philip Leverhulme Prize; Corday-Morgan Prize; RSE BP Hutton Prize; Tilden Prize

Leroy "Lee" Cronin (born 1 June 1973) is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, UK. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and appointed to the Regius Chair of Chemistry in 2013 (He was previously the Gardiner Chair, appointed April 2009).

Lee Cronin received his B.Sc. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) degrees from the University of York. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Leverhulme fellow at the University of Edinburgh working with Neil Robertson, and after that he moved to the University of Bielefeld (1999–2000) as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow in the laboratory of Achim Mueller. In 2000 he joined the academic staff at the University of Birmingham, UK, as a Lecturer in Chemistry, and in 2002 he moved to a similar position at the University of Glasgow, UK.

He became Reader at the University of Glasgow in 2005, EPSRC Advanced Fellow and Professor of Chemistry in 2006, and in 2009 became the Gardiner Professor. In 2013 he became the Regius Professor of Chemistry (Glasgow). Glasgow is the only University to have a Regius Professor of Chemistry.

Cronin gave the opening lecture at TEDGlobal conference in 2011 in Edinburgh. He outlined initial steps his team at University of Glasgow is taking to create inorganic biology, life composed of non-carbon-based material.

He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust in 2007. He was awarded the Corday-Morgan medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2012.