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Lee Cronin
- Professor-Gardiner Chair of Chemistry University of Glasgow School of Chemistry
- Email: L.Cronin@chem.gla.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 141 330 6650
- Lee Cronin is Professor (FRSE, Professor-Gardiner Chair of Chemistry) at University of Glasgow, School of Chemistry
The focus of Cronin’s work is understanding and controlling self-assembly and self-organisation in Chemistry to develop functional molecular and nano-molecular chemical systems; linking architectural design with function and recently engineering system-level functions (e.g. coupled catalytic self-assembly, emergence of inorganic materials and fabrication of inorganic cells that allow complex cooperative behaviours). Cronin regularly collaborates with Physical, Theoretical, Organic, Materials, and Biological Chemists as well as Scientists in Chemical and Electrical Engineering, Physics and Medicine.
In 2007 Cronin won a Leverhulme Prize for his work in self-assembly of functional nanoscale polyoxometalate clusters and in 2009 was awarded a five year Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. As well as investigating new technological applications of metal oxides, Cronin is also developing several new ‘reaction-formats’ for chemical reactions as well as applications in catalysis, energy, and coatings. These include flow reactors for evolvable chemistry, 3D-printing ‘wetfab’ for the democratisation of chemistry e.g. synthesis of drugs important for the developing world as well as counterfeit drug sensors. Within Glasgow Solar Fuels, Cronin and colleagues are investigating a solar fuel cell that effectively produces a liquid fuel suitable for transport use. In 2009 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and between 2006 and 2011 he was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow.
Cronin has published over 200 papers that have amassed >4000 citations in the world’s leading scientific journals and has given over 150 invited talks.