Jeehiun Lee facts for kids
Jeehiun Katherine Lee is a smart scientist who teaches chemistry at Rutgers University. She is an organic chemist, which means she studies chemicals that contain carbon. She also leads a special lab at the university where she and her team do research.
Even though she first studied organic chemistry, her work now includes biological chemistry. This means she uses tools like mass spectrometry (to weigh tiny molecules) and computer modeling (to create virtual experiments) to understand how chemicals react and help speed up reactions (called catalysis).
What She Studies
Professor Lee's team uses a mix of hands-on experiments and computer work to figure out how chemical reactions happen. These reactions are important for both chemistry and biology.
She was one of the first to use tools from physics, like mass spectrometry and computational chemistry (using computers to solve chemistry problems), to understand how chemicals work in living things. Her main focus is on catalysis, which is about making chemical reactions happen faster.
Her Education
Jeehiun Lee went to Cornell University and earned her bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 1990. She graduated with summa cum laude, which means "with highest honor."
Then, she got her PhD in organic chemistry from Harvard University in 1994.
From 1995 to 1997, she was a special researcher called a NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She worked at UCLA in the lab of another famous scientist, Kendall N. Houk.
Besides her research, Professor Lee also teaches chemistry classes. She teaches basic organic chemistry to college students and more advanced organic chemistry to graduate students.
Awards She Has Won
- American Chemical Society PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship Award
- NSF CAREER Award for her studies on how nucleotides react
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for her great teaching of college students
- Sigma Chi Scientific Honor Society
See also
In Spanish: Jeehiun Lee para niños
