PEOPLE

Jong-Min Lee

Principal Investigator
lee@dgist.ac.kr

Experience

HYUNSONG Educational &Cultural Foundation Distinguished Professor, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), 2025 Oct. – present.
Professor, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, DGIST, 2026 Mar. – present
Associate Professor, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, DGIST, 2025 Feb. – 2026 Feb.
Cluster Director in Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University, 2019 Jan. – 2025 Jan.
Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 2016 Sep. – 2025 Jan.
Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2008 Sep. – 2016 Aug.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Chemical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, 2006 Apr. – 2008 Jan.
Researcher, Faraday Technology, 2003 Nov. – 2006 Apr.
Research Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Minnesota, 1996 Oct. – 1998 Aug.

Professional Memberships

Editorial Board Member of Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 Mar. – present.
Editorial Board Member of Advanced Powder Materials, 2024 Jan. – present.
Editorial Board Member of Nano Convergence, 2022 Mar. – present.
Editorial Advisory Board Member of ChemElectroChem, 2022 Jan. – present.
Vice President of Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in Singapore, 2020 – present.

Research Funding

NTU, “Ionic liquids”, 2008-2012
Ministry of Education (AcRF-Tier 1), “Electrodeposition of mesoporous films from lyotropic liquid crystalline phase”, (Principal Investigator), 2009-2012
Singapore-MIT Alliance research fund, “Electrochemical sensor”,(Principal Investigator), 2010-2015
National Research Foundation-Competitive Research Programme (CRP), “Engineering biology for valuable fuels”, (Collaborator), 2010-2015
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star SERC), “Microbial conversion of lignin constituents into the commodity chemical adipic acid”, (Co-Principal Investigator), 2013-2016
Ministry of Education (AcRF-Tier 1), “Microextraction from food wastes”, (Principal Investigator), 2013-2016
National Research Foundation (NRF-CAM-CREATE-C4T), “Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction on Chemistry Technology Phase 1 (Principal Investigator), 2014-2018
Singapore-German Research Fund, “Electrodeposition in an ionic liquid” (Principal Investigator), 2015-2017
Ministry of Education (AcRF-Tier 1), “Unique ionic liquids via reversible click reaction”, (Principal Investigator), 2016-2018
Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) Research Fund, “A novel approach of NOx removal from ship exhaust gas for vessels to meet IMO tier III standard” (Principal Investigator,), 2016-2020
NTU-COE Major Proposal Grant, “Novel approaches for biometric systems”, (Principal Investigator), 2017-1018
Ministry of Education (AcRF-Tier 1), “Development of catalysts for reductive amination of furfurylamine”, (Principal Investigator), 2020-2024
National Research Foundation (NRF-CAM-CREATE-C4T2), “Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction on Chemistry Technology Phase 2, (Co-Principal Investigator), 2018-2024
GSK-EDB Trust Fund, “Carbon-based molecular sieving membranes for sustainable manufacturing in pharmaceutical industries”, (Principal Investigator), 2017-2022
Urban Solutions and Sustainability (USS) Integration Fund (IF), “Detoxification and recycling of toxic plastics in e-waste”, (Principal Investigator), 2018-2023
Ministry of Education (AcRF-Tier 1), “Heterogeneous molecular catalysts based on planar and macrocyclic metal complex for electrochemical CO2 reduction”, (Principal Investigator), 2022-2025
International Synchrotron Access Program (National University of Singapore), “Electrocatalyst design via modulating dual-atomic coordination on monolayered elemental substrates”, 2024
Ministry of Education (AcRF-Tier 1), “Enabling industrial-level seawater electrolysis through pioneering adaptive electrocatalysis”, (Principal Investigator), 2024-2025
Principal Investigator: Startup funding, DGIST, (01/02/25~31/12/28) Synthesis of dual-template-based high-entropy mesoporous nanotubes and their electrocatalytic applications in freshwater and seawater electrolysis”
Principal Investigator: Grant from Nano and Materials Technology Development Program of National Nano Infrastructure Council (01/01/25~31/12/25)
“Integrating atomic assemblies on borophene for enhanced electrochemical reactions” Principal Investigator: Grant from Basic Research Program of Korea Ministry of Science and ICT (01/09/25~30/08/28)