Scientists

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Founder：Prof. Shuit-Tong Lee

Founder

>> A member (academician) of theChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

>> A fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).

>> Internationally renowned scientist in the field of materials science and technology

Prof. Shuit-Tong Lee is the Founding Director of FUNSOM, the Founding Dean of the College of Nano Science & Technology (CNST) at Soochow University, the Founding Director of Macao Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (MIMSE) at Macau University of Science and Technology, and the Director of Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology (NANO-CIC). He was a Senior Research Scientist and Project Manager at the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company (U.S.A.), a Chair Professor of Materials Science and the Founding Director of the Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF) at City University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Lee’s research interest is in nanomaterial and nanotechnology, and has made outstanding contributions to the fields of functional nanomaterials and devices, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology, and diamond and super-hard thin film technology. He was awarded the Humboldt Senior Research Award (Germany) in 2001 and a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship from the Croucher Foundation (HK) in 2002 for the studies of “Nucleation and growth of diamond and new carbon based materials” and “Oxide-assisted growth and applications of semiconducting nanowires”, respectively. He also won the National Natural Science Award of PRC (second class) in 2002, 2005, and 2013 for the above two research achievements and “Organic Optical Functional Materials for High Efficiency Photoelectric Conversion”, respectively. He was awarded the 2008 Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Foundation and the 2023 Top Ten Outstanding Figures in the Overseas Chinese Community in China.
Prof. Lee’s research has resulted in more than 1100 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious chemistry, physics and materials science journals, 9 book chapters and over 20 US patents, among them 7 papers were published in Science.

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