Professor Lee Cronin

Innovations Column:  Professor Lee Cronin. Lee Cronin is the Gardiner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Cronin runs a large research group of over 45 people with wide ranging interests in chemistry. With projects as diverse as inorganic biology (trying to create life in the laboratory from scratch using different blueprints to those found on planet earth), solar fuels (trying to convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into a chemical fuel) and new ways to do chemistry utilizing advances in technology (3D printing and robotics), he aims to explore ‘complex chemical systems’ at both fundamental and applied levels.