Lee Kwang-hee

• 1979–1983: B.S. in nuclear engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea
• 1983–1985: M.S. in physics, KAIST, Seoul, South Korea
• 1990–1995: Ph.D. in physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Lee is currently a full professor of the Materials Science & Engineering Department and a vice-director of the Heeger Center for Advanced Materials at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in 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 a BS degree from Seoul National University in 1983, and a MS degree from KAIST in 1985. After this, he worked at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute as a Staff Researcher from 1985 to 1990. He moved to the US for his doctorate study in 1990 at the University of California, in Santa Barbara (UCSB) and obtained his Ph.D. in March 1995 under the supervision of one Professor Alan J. Heeger (the Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 2000). After finishing his post-doctoral work at UCSB in 1997, he started his professorship at the Pusan National University in South Korea. In 2007, Lee moved to his current position of a Full Professor at GIST.