Leeor Kronik

• B.Sc., Awarded Summa Cum Laude, Electrical Engineering,
  Tel Aviv University.
• Ph.D., Granted with distinction, Department of Physical Electronics,
  Tel Aviv University.
  Advisor: Prof. Y. Shapira
• Post-doctoral Rothschild and Fulbright Fellow at the Department of
  Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of
  Minnesota, and post-doctoral Fellow of the Minnesota
  Supercomputing Institute. Advisor: Prof. James R. Chelikowsky
• Faculty member in the Department of Materials and Interfaces,
  Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, since December 2002.
  Presently Full Professor and Department Chair.

Selected Awards and Recognition:

• Krill Prize of the Wolf Foundation for Excellence in Scientific
  Research, 2006.
• Member Ad Personem, Lise Meitner – Minerva Center for
  Computational Quantum Chemistry, 2007.
• Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the Israel Chemical Society,
  2010.
• Awarded European Research Council “Ideas” starting grant, 2011.
• Appointed (in inaugural group) as a member of the new "Young
  Israel Academy", 2012.
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2013.
• Excellence in Research Award of the Israel Vacuum Society, 2018.

Selected Numerology:

• Published >220 articles, review articles, and book chapters. Body of
  work has been cited >19,000 times with an h-index of 72 (Google Scholar numbers), >15,000 times with an h-index of 64 (Web of Knowledge numbers).
• Delivered >230 invited lectures (at National and International Conferences), 
  seminars, and colloquia (at various universities and research centers).
• Graduated 15 Ph.D. students and 13 M.Sc. students. 8 group alumni are now independent academic faculty. Present group consists of ~10 people.