Lee Cronin, FRSE, Ph.D., is a shemist. He is the Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow and the Founder & CEO of Chemify. External Faculty, SFI, Sante Fe, NM, USA. He is known for his approach to the digitization of chemistry and developing digital-to-chemical transformation known as Chemputing which can turn code into reactions and molecules.
Prof. Cronin has also developed a new theory for evolution and selection called assembly theory which aims to quantify and explain how selection can occur in chemistry before biology. He is also exploring how chemical systems can compute, and what is needed for the evolution of intelligence, as well as designing a new type of computational system that uses information encoded in chemical reactions and molecules.
