Leeor Kronik#
| Membership Number: | 6733 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/Leeor/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6791-8658 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Director, Tom and Mary Beck Center for Advanced and Intelligent Materials.
- 2012 - present Full Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science (incumbent of Professorial Chair from 2019)
- 2012 - 2021 Chair, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular crystals
- Halide perovskites
- Electronic structure theory
- Density functional theory
- 2d materials
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Krill Prize of the Wolf Foundation for Excellence in Scientific Research
- 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the Israel Chemical Society
- 2011 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2012 Appointed (in inaugural group) as member of the new "Young Israel Academy"
- 2013 Elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2015 Awarded an Inaugural UK-Israel Science Lectureship
- 2018 Israel Vacuum Society Excellence Award for Research
- 2021 Helen and Martin Kimmel award for innovative investigation
- 2021 Outstanding Scientist Award of the Israel Chemical Society
