Lee Cronin - CV
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Research Summary: My research is motivated by my fascination for complex chemical systems and my desire to construct complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks. Projects underway in the laboratory are based around functional nanoscale polyoxometalate clusters, complexity and emergent chemical systems, functional self assembly, functional surfaces, non-equilibrium supramolecular assembly, self growing nano and micron-scale structures, dissipative chemical systems, molecular evolution, artificial life / cells, as well as simple organic chemistry, ligand design and coordination chemistry. As part of this work we are constantly utilising many synthetic and analytical techniques. We are investigating synthesis and self assembly in a purpose built system that allows chemical evolution (not combinatorial chemistry or dynamic equilibrium chemistry). We are also developing crystallographic techniques that can cope with our protein sized cluster architectures (direct space electron density synthesis) and we are also the first group in the world to apply temperature controlled high resolution electrospray mass spectrometry to look at reaction kinetics and the self assembly of complex inorganic architectures – we have made several key advances that have been internationally recognised and I also won a 2007 Leverhulme Prize for our work in self assembly of functional nanoscale polyoxometalate clusters. The research group in 2007-2008 will be composed of 15 PhD students, 8 post doctoral researchers and 4 masters / project students.
Publications and Seminars : Almost 120 contributions have been published, with over 90 primary peer reviewed papers as the corresponding author. 19 papers were published in 2007, 20 in 2006, 17 in 2005, 14 in 2004, 7 in 2003. Over 70 seminars have been presented to Departments, conferences and companies around the word.
Positions
| March 2006-2011 | EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow |
| February 2006 - | Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow |
| February 2005 - | Reader in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow |
| August 2002 - | Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow |
| September 2000 - | Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Birmingham |
| August 1999-2000 | Alexander von Humboldt research fellow in University Bielefeld |
| July-Sept1998- | MONBUSHO research fellow at the Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkadio University, Sapporo, Japan. |
| October 1997- | Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Working in the group of Dr. Neil Robertson on the design, synthesis, characterisation and application of new ligands and complexes as ion-sensors and molecular arrays exhibiting conducting, magnetic and ion-channels and electrochemical activity. |
Prizes & Awards
| 2007 | Philip Leverhulme Prize (£70,000) |
| 2007 | Morino Foundation Lectures (invited lectures in Japan, 2008) |
| 2006 | Visiting Professor, University of Versailles, France, 2006 |
| 2006 | Nexxus young scientist 2006 award |
| 2006 | Finalist and winner (silver medal) of the Young European Chemists Award |
| 2005 | Award of an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship |
| 2004 | Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept Award 2004 |
| 2003 | British Council Science Award |
| 1999-2001 | Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship |
| 1996 | ICI Scientists Scholarship |
| 1996 | European Science Foundation Grant to attend ECIS VI |
| 1993 | The Proctor & Gamble prize in Chemistry (awarded to the best undergraduate) |
| 1993 | The Whinfield Project Award for Chemistry (award for original research ideas) |
Education
| Oct 1994-Sept 1997 | DPhil. Project title: "Ligand Design: New Small Molecule Models for Carbonic University of York Anhydrase" York, UK.Viva, December 19th 1997. Supervisor Prof. Paul. H. Walton |
| Oct 1991-July 1994 | BSc. (Hons) in Chemistry, First Class.University of York, Final year research project: "Laser Flash Photolysis and Photo-products of York, UK. Ruthenium Hydride and Carbonyl Complexes." Supervisor Prof. Robin Perutz. |
Public Understanding of Science: I am active in promoting science, in particular chemistry to the public – particularly school children and these activities have taken many forms. For example, in October 2006, April 2005 and September 2003 I gave lectures on nanotechnology and self assembly to school children at science-super-highs-schools in Japan. Also, in December 2002 I gave the Royal Society of Chemistry Edinburgh Christmas Lectures (3 lectures over two days to around 1500 14-16 year old children). In Birmingham a complete chemistry ‘lecture’ and interactive demonstrations were written and designed to be preformed by dedicated personnel at the new Birmingham ‘Think-Tank’ museum and many lectures were presented to school children.
Prof. Lee Cronin
University of Glasgow
Department of Chemistry
Joseph Black Building
Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
Phone: + 44 (0)141 330 6650
Fax: + 44 (0)141 330 4888
L.Cronin@chem.gla.ac.uk