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 at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel,
  since December 2002. Presently the incumbent of the Katzman
  Professorial Chair and the Director of the Beck Center for
  Advanced and Intelligent Materials.

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.
• Helen and Martin Kimmel Award for Innovative Investigation, 2021.
• Outstanding Scientist Award of the Israel Chemical Society, 2021.

Selected Numerology:

• Published >260 articles, review articles, and book chapters. Body of
  work has been cited >28,000 times with an h-index of 86 (Google Scholar numbers), >21,000 times with an h-index of 76 (Web of Knowledge numbers).
• Delivered >270 invited lectures (at National and International Conferences), 
  seminars, and colloquia (at various universities and research centers).
• Graduated 19 Ph.D. students and 19 M.Sc. students. 10 group alumni are now independent academic faculty and 3 others are Staff Scientists. Present group consists of ~10 people.