Sang Yup Lee

Sang Yup Lee

Dr Lee is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and is Dean of KAIST Institutes, Director of BioProcess Engineering Research Center and BioInformatics Research Center at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is also a Scientific Director of the “New Bioactive Compound Section” at DTU NNF Center for Biosustainability. He holds honorary professorships at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Univ. of Queensland, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Wuhan Univ., Hubei Univ. of Technology, and Beijing Univ. of Chemical Technology. With an H-factor of 97 and more than 33,000 citations (Google Scholar), he is author of more than 560 peer reviewed papers, 74 books/chapters and holds 629 patents. He has received numerous awards, including Merck Award for Metabolic Engineering, Ho-Am Prize in Engineering, POSCO TJ Park Prize, National Science Medal, Order of Merit-Red Stripes, and more recently the Best Scientist of Korea Award from President of Korea. He is currently Fellow of AAM, AAAS, SIMB, AIChE, AIMBE, TWAS, KAST, and NAEK. He is also Foreign Associate of both National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, USA. He is Editor-in-Chief of Biotechnology Journal, and Associate Editor and board member of numerous journals.