PROF. Hong Geun Lee

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Hong Geun Lee is a graduate of Seoul National University for both his B.S. and M.S. degrees. He was drawn into the world of organic synthesis in the laboratory of Prof. Mattew Shair while he was pursuing his Ph.D. degree at Harvard University. During his postdoctoral period in the Buchwald laboratory at MIT, he later realized that “total synthesis of natural products” is not the only fascinating discipline in organic synthesis. In 2017 he returned to his alma mater as an assistant professor of chemistry. Since then, he and his colleagues are continuously attempting to utilize the controlled reactivity of high-energy species to mediate the covalent bond formation at the sp3-hybridized reaction centers.

	Assistant Professor of Chemistry 2017-present Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
	Research Investigator. 2016-2017 Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
	Postdoc. 2012-2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
	Ph.D. 2012 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
	M.S. 2006 Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
	B.S. 2002 Seoul National University, Republic of Korea