Group Leader
Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
(2) Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea
Zonghoon Lee is professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in S. Korea and had been the department head for four years. Since 2019, he has been a group leader and co-affiliated with Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials. He received Ph.D. in Materials Science at University of Southern California. And then he moved to the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral scientist fellow and became a senior staff member. After six years in Berkeley, he moved back to Korea to join UNIST as a faculty member in 2011. He founded Atomic Imaging Center and Center for Multidimensional Programmable Matter. He supervised the installation of FEI Titan G2 Cube with double correctors and a monochromator. He published more than 190 journal papers with more than 13,000 citations in the field of materials science and electron microscopy. He is the editor-in-chief of the Applied Microscopy journal published with Springer Nature. He serves the Korean Society of Microscopy as president this year. His research focuses on atomic-scale characterization, design, and synthesis as well as the properties of advanced materials including 2D materials, carbon materials, and soft matter by means of aberration-corrected S/TEM and spectroscopy. In situ experiments at both the atomic and nano scales are implemented for his study.