Lee Kwang-hee

This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.
Lee Kwang-hee
Born 1960
Seoul, South Korea
Residence Gwangju, South Korea
Nationality South Korea
Fields Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Institutions Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Alma mater University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Doctoral advisor Alan J. Heeger (2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)
Notable awards

2010 Kyung-Ahm prize in engineering
2011 Best Research Award for the greatest number of citations

2013 Science and technology medal
Lee Kwang-hee
Hangul 이광희
Revised Romanization I Gwang-hui
McCune–Reischauer I Kwanghŭi

Lee Kwang-hee (born 1960) is a South Korean physicist. Since 2007, he has served as the Director of the Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST).

Education

Work

Lee is currently a Full Professor of Materials Science & Engineering Department and a Vice-Director of Heeger Center for Advanced Materials at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea. His major areas of interest include polymer devices such as polymer LEDs, polymer solar cells, and polymer FETs using semiconducting and metallic polymers. He received BS degree from Seoul National University in 1983, and MS degree from KAIST in 1985. Then he worked at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute as a Staff Researcher for 1985–1990. He moved to the USA for his doctorate study in 1990 at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and obtained his Ph.D. degree in March 1995 under the supervision of Professor Alan J. Heeger (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 2000). After finishing his post-doctoral work at UCSB during 1995–11997, he started his professorship at the Pusan National University in South Korea in 1997. In 2007, he moved to his current position as a Distinguished Professor of GIST.[1]

Outstanding breakthroughs

References

  1. http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Kwanghee-Lee/330654647
  2. Phys. Rev. B 48, 14884(1993)
  3. Nature 441, 65(2006)
  4. Science 317, 222(2007)
  5. Nat. Photonics 3, 297(2009)
  6. Adv. Funct. Mater. 21, 487(2011)
  7. Adv. Mater. 24, 3005(2012)
  8. Physical Review Letters, 109, 106405 (2012)
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