Lee Young-hee (physicist)

Lee Young Hee is a South Korean physicist. He was a distinguished professor in physics and energy science at Sungkyunkwan University as a SKKU fellow and also director of the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics in the Institute for Basic Science until 2023, before going to Hubei University of Technology and Peking University. He has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the cross-field category in 2018–2024.

Education

Lee received a B.S. in physics, Chonbuk National University in 1982. In 1986 he received his Ph.D. in physics at Kent State University on the subject of "Classical and Quantum Computer Simulation Studies: Molecular Dynamics of the Kerr Effect in CS2 and Green's Function MonteCarlo Calculation of the Electronic Correlation Energy in Atoms" which was advised by Michael A. Lee.

Career

2025-present: professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
2024-present: professor and Director of Low-Dimensional Quantum Materials Institute at Hubei University of Technology
2023-present: Distinguished HCR professor, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University
2012–2023: Director of Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute for Basic Science
2021-present: Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Academician
2009–2023: Professor in energy science, Sungkyunkwan University
2007–Present: Korean Academy of Science and Technology, member
2001–Present: Professor in physics, Sungkyunkwan University, SKKU fellow
1996–1997: Visiting professor in physics, Michigan State University, United States
1993–1993: Visiting researcher, Zurich IBM Research Center, Switzerland
1989–1990: Visiting professor in physics, Iowa State University Ames National Laboratory, United States
1987–2001: Assistant Professor, full professor in physics, Chonbuk National University

Awards

2020: Seongbong Physics Award from the Korean Physical Society
Nov. 2019: Kyung-Ahm Prize in Natural Science, Kyung-Ahm Education & Cultural Foundation
May 2017: Einstein Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
May 2014: Sudang Award
December 2012: Grand Prize for Sungkyun Family, Sungkyunkwan University
December 2010: 100 representative researches in all the researches and development done during 2010 in Korea, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
October 2010: 100 representative research achievements in the R&D of Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
May 2008 Presidential Award in Science and Education
December 2007: Lee Hsun Research Award, IMR, Chinese Academy of Science, China
April 2005: Nominated as "Representative Research achievement of BK21 ", "Modification of electronic structures of a arbonnanotube by hydrogen functionalization"
May 1997: Award from Foundation of Korea Science and Technology for "The Best Paper in Physics " Fellowship and Nominations
June 1997: Nominated as "Man of Jeonbuk National University" in Science in 50th Anniversary of Jeonbuk National University
September 1999: Nominated for "Man of Jeollabuk-do Province", in Academia and Public press
September 2004: First Fellow of Sungkyunkwan University
April 2005: Science Award from Korean Physical Society
September 2007: Fellow of Sungkyunkwan University

Other activities

November 2009–Present: Associate Editor of European Physical Journal: Appl. Phys.
2000–Present: Associate Editor of Carbon Letters
2006–2010: Managing Editor of NANO
2009–2010: International Advisory Committee of Nanotube conference
2008–Present: Conference chair of SPIE conference
2012–Present: Conference chair of MRS Meeting
2008–Present: Program Committee of IWEPNM
2010–Present: Materials Research Society Member
2009–Present: Program Committee of Korea Carbon Society
2001–Present: The Korean Physical Society Fellow
2001–006: Associate Editor of Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Representative papers

Probing graphene grain boundaries with optical microscopy
Transferred wrinkled Al2O3 for highly stretchable and transparent graphene/carbon nanotube transistors
Small Hysteresis Nanocarbon-Based Integrated Circuits on Flexible and Transparent Plastic Substrate
Adaptive Logic Circuits with Doping-Free Ambipolar Carbon Nanotube Transistors
Synthesis of Large-Area Graphene Layers on Poly-Nickel Substrate by Chemical Vapor Deposition: Wrinkle Formation