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Leroy “Lee” Cronin FRSE FRSC is the Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His research spans many disciplines and has four main aims: the construction of an artificial life form; the digitization of chemistry; the use of artificial intelligence in chemistry, including the construction of ‘wet’ chemical computers; the exploration of complexity and information in chemistry. His recent work on the digitization of chemistry has resulted in a new programming paradigm for matter and organic synthesis and discovery – chemputation – which uses the world's first domain-specific and universal programming language for chemistry.

He has published over 450 papers, given over 500 lectures and has written extensively on all aspects of science from the origin of life to artificial intelligence. His research group is organized and assembled transparently around ideas, avoids hierarchy and aims to mentor researchers using a problem-based approach.