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.
If I’m not around, I can probably be found with my family and with one of these:
Israel Nature and Parks Authority
Israel Shotokan Karate
Israel Association of Baseball
The 5 Club