Lee Hian Kee

Emeritus Professor, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (NUS)

Emeritus Professor Lee Hian Kee is a world-renowned scientist in the sample preparation field, and former head of the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests are in sample preparation, separation science and environmental analytics, specifically, the development and application of solvent-minimized microextraction procedures.

Professor Lee is presently an editor of the Journal of Chromatography A and sits on the editorial advisory board of several journals including the Analytical Sciences, LC-GC Asia Pacific, LC-GC Europe, Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society, Journal of Advanced Research, Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Data Collections and Talanta.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Singapore National Academy of Science, and the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. He is a recipient of his university’s Outstanding Researcher Award (2006), the university’s Faculty of Science Outstanding Scientist Award (2009), the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies Foundation Award (2009), and the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry Award in Environmental Chemistry (2013).

Professor Lee graduated with a B.Sc. (Honours) and Ph.D. degree from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.