| Professor Leroy Cronin PhD FRSE | |
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Professor Lee Cronin in Glasgow
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| Born | 1 June 1973 |
| Residence | Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| 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 | Prof. Paul. H. Walton |
| Known for | Nanotechnology, Self assembly, Complex Materials |
| Notable awards | Philip Leverhulme Prize |
Leroy (Lee) Cronin (born June 1, 1973) [1] is the Gardiner Professor Chemistry in the Department Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, UK.[2][3] [4] He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and appointed to the Gardiner Chair in 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 Dr 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 Professor 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 at that institution in 2006, and in 2009 became the Gardiner Professor there.
Cronin gave the opening lecture at TEDGlobal conference in 2011 in Edinburgh.[5] He outlined initial steps his team at University of Glasgow is taking to create inorganic biology, life composed of non-carbon-based material.