Biography
Hian Kee Lee is Professor at the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (NUS). Separately, he also held the NUS Provost’s Term Chair Professorship from 2011 to 2014. Concurrently, he is affiliated with the NUS Environmental Research Institute as Principal Investigator and Executive Committee Member, and as Senior Research Fellow of the NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute. His main research interests are in microscale separation science with a specific focus on miniaturized, solvent-minimized sample preparation. More recently, his work has been centred on the development of automated integrative water sampling-sample preparation-analytical platforms for environmental applications. He has been an editor of the Journal of Chromatography A since 2010, and was an editor of Analytica Chimica Acta from 2005 to 2011. He is author or co-author of more than 370 publications and more than 340 conference presentations. Professor Lee is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Singapore National Academy of Science, and the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. He was featured in 2013 and 2015 in The Analytical Scientist as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World of Analytical Science.”