Leroy CroninProfessor

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. 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. Lee Cronin was the subject of a film entitled Inorganica, which documents the progress of his research in inorganic biology and origins of life.