Professor Dr Lee Hian Kee is one of the foremost analytical chemists in Asia-Pacific, with 300 refereed international journal papers, which have garnered 7,000 citations. He has a very high h-index of 47. He is one of the pioneers of the development and application of micro-techniques, and he has gained international recognition in the development of miniaturized and solvent-minimized extraction procedures to address the shortcoming of conventional sample preparation methods. He is an Editor of one of the top analytical chemistry/separation science journals, the Journal of Chromatography A. He has contributed to analytical and environmental chemistry in Malaysia in various ways, including being a current External Examiner at UM, International Advisory Board Member of Analytical Chemistry Conferences as well as collaborator in research work with Malaysian universities.
Professor Lee began his career at the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, in 1983 as a Visiting Teaching Fellow and rose through the ranks as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and full Professor. In all these years, he has been a good teacher and a consistently active and prolific researcher in the field of Analytical Chemistry. He received the NUS’ Outstanding Researcher Award in 2006, the NUS Faculty of Science Outstanding Scientist Award in 2009, and the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies Foundation Lectureship Award in 2009. Currently he is an NUS Provost’s Chair Professor.
In his most recent conference activity, he served as Co-chairperson of the 13th International Symposium on Advances in Extraction Technologies (ExTech2011), Kuala Lumpur, September 26-29, 2011, organized by IKM, and also served on its International advisory board.
