Dr. Lee received B.S. and M.S. degrees in the chemical technology, Seoul National University in 1997 and 1999. He worked as an associate research manager in LG Life Science Ltd. from 1999 to 2005. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2010. He studied his postdoctoral research in University of California Berkeley with an American Heart Association (AHA) postdoctoral fellowship. He joined GIST in 2012. His research is in the field of biomaterials, which include biomimetic material design, electrically active biomaterials, plasmonic nanomaterials, and stem cell applications.