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Young Hee Lee
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Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
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Prof. Lee has been a full professor of the Physics Department at SKKU, since 2001. He received Ph. D. from Kent State University in Ohio (1986) in physics. Prior to joining SKKU in 2001, Prof. Lee was a full professor in the Physics Department at Chonbuk National University since 1986. He was a visiting scholar at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University in 1989, IBM, Zurich in 1993, and Michigan State University in 1996. Currently, he is the Director of Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute for Basic Science at SKKU. He serves for an Associate Editor of ACS Nano. He was awarded the first SKKU fellow in 2004 at SKKU, Science award from Korean Physical Society in 2005, Lee Hsun Research Award, IMR, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2007, Presidential Award in Science and Education in 2008 in Korea, and Einstein Award IMR, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2017. He was also nominated as a National Scholar by Ministry of Education in 2006 and has been a fellow of Korean Academy of Science and Technology since 2007. He got Sudang prize in 2015, Kyung Am prize in 2019, and Song-Bong prize in 2020. Prof. Lee’s work has focused on understanding the fundamental properties of low dimensional nanostructures and their hybrid heterostructures, design and synthesis of various heterostructures to implement unique physical and chemical properties. His research covers carrier dynamics,/carrier multiplication/ hot carriers, Bose-Einstein condensation, room-temperature Tc magnetic semiconductors, dissipation-less power electronics. He has published more than 637 scientific papers in international journals and his total citation number exceeds over 67,000 times with H-index of 123 (Google Scholar, Jan. 2022).

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Prof. Lee has been a full professor of the Physics Department at SKKU, since 2001. He received Ph. D. from Kent State University in Ohio (1986) in physics. Prior to joining SKKU in 2001, Prof. Lee was a full professor in the Physics Department at Chonbuk National University since 1986.
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