Jung-Kun Lee is currently Associate Professor and William
Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at University of Pittsburgh
(Pitt). He joined Pitt in September 2007 after about 6 year service at Los
Alamos National Laboratory as Technical Staff Member and Director’s
Postdoctoral Fellow. In Los Alamos, he intensively investigated the effect of
ion-beam assisted surface modification on the luminescence of ceramic
materials. He received his BS, MS, Ph. D degrees from the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. His current
research interest lies in electronic and optical properties of semiconductor
materials and their energy application. Through his career, specific emphasis has
been placed on 1) ion-material interaction and surface modification using ion-irradiation, 2) optical and electronic properties of nanomaterials, 3) material processing of electronic materials
in forms of nanoparticles and thin films. The scientific quality of his
research is validated by more than 150 publications in refereed journals. He also holds 10 patents on the dielectric
and optical applications of functional materials. He received National Science Foundation’s CAREER
Award in 2009 and his research has been supported by NSF, Department of Energy
(DoE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
