Lee Cronin: Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow
Prof. Lee Cronin went to the University of York where he completed both a degree and PhD in Chemistry and then on to do post docs in Edinburgh and Germany before becoming a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham, and then Glasgow where he has been since 2002 working up the ranks to become the Regius Professor of Chemistry in 2013 aged 39. He has one of the largest multidisciplinary chemistry-based research teams in the world.
Cronin group researchers are divided into subgroups and teams. The aim of the subgroups is to provide a discussion framework for researchers that share similar technical needs, face common challenges and study similar chemistries, while project teams responsible for delivering high quality research in specific areas of work. The research is anchored by four key missions: exploration of the assembly of artificial life in the lab, the digitization of chemistry and self-assembly, elucidation of the fundamentals of information theory in chemistry, and the creation of a chemical computer.