Researcher's Profile

  • Fellow
  • Yuan Tseh LEE
  • RCAST Fellow

Biography

June 1965 Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
June 1965 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
February 1967 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
1968 Assistant Professor, The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
1971 Associate Professor, The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
1973 Professor, The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
1974 Professor, Department of Chemistry/ Pricipal Investigator, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1994 President, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2011 President, International Council for Science (ICSU)
October 2019 RCAST Fellow, RCAST, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
November 2019 Visiting Professor, Tokyo College, UTokyo

Research Interests

  • Structure and chemical behavior of highly reactive polyatomic radicals and unusual transient species
  • Mechanisms and dynamics for elementary chemical reactions and primary photodissociation processes
  • The nature of intra- and intermolecular energy relaxation
  • Bond-selective, regio-selective or mode-selective means to modify and manipulate chemical reactivity
  • Radical intermediates that are critical in combustion and atmospheric processes
  • Promotion of "Future Earth", a major international platform providing the knowledge and support to accelerate transformations of the human society towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords

Chemical dynamics and spectroscopy; Sustainable transformations of human society

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