Talk title: Electrocatalyst Design and Interface Engineering Toward Efficient Water Electrolysis

Biography

Prof. LEE is currently a Professor at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea. His research field of interest is (electro)catalysts for water electrolysis, nanozyme, fuel cells and Li-S batteries.

He started his professional career as an Assistant Professor in Department of Chemcial Engineering at POSTECH (2008-2018), and moved to KAIST in 2018 where he was later appointed as the KAIST Chair Professor.

He has published more than 308 papers including Nature Materials, Nature Catalysis, Joule, Nature Comm. JACS, Angew. Chem. And Energy. Environ. Sci. Total citation number and H-index are >33,000 and 98, respectively. He serves as Editor for Chemical Engineering Journal and Associated Editor for Science Advances (AAAS)

He received the B.S. degree from the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea in 1993. He then received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea in 1998.