个人简介
Current Position (Major ones)
Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST
Dean, KAIST Institutes
Professor, Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy, KAIST
Director, BioProcess Engineering Research Center, KAIST
Director, Bioinformatics Research Center, KAIST
Head, Metabolic Engineering National Research Laboratory, KAIST
Director, Fourth Industrial Revolution Intelligence Center, KAIST
Scientific Director, New Bioactive Compounds Section, Novo Nordisk Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark
Chair, World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Biotechnology
Member, World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Education:
B.S., Dept. Chemical Engineering, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea (1982. 3. 1.-1986. 2.26.)
M.S., Dept. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA (1986. 9.1.-1987. 6.30.)
Ph.D., Dept. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA (1987.7.1.-1991.12.30.)
Academic Position:
1994-1996, Assistant Professor/ 1997-2002, Associate Professor/ 2002-2006, Professor/ 2007-present, Distinguished Professor, Dept. Chemical Engineering, KAIST
2000-present, Director, BioProcess Engineering Research Center, KAIST
2001-present, Director, BioInformatics Research Center, KAIST
2004-2010, LG Chem Chair Professor
2004-present, Honorary Professor of University of Queensland
2007-present, Director, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology, KAIST
2008-2013, Dean (Founding Dean), College of Life Science and Bioengineering, KAIST
2012-present, Honorary Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2013-2015, Dean, KAIST Institutes, KAIST
2013-present, Adjunct Professor, Technical University of Denmark
2013-present, Scientific Director, New Bioactive Compounds Section, Novo Nordisk Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark
2013-present, Advisory Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
2014.9-present, Honorary Professor, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
2014.9-present, Honorary Professor, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China
2014.10-present, Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
2017.3-present, Dean, KAIST Institutes, KAIST
2017.7-present, Director, the Fourth Industrial Revolution Intelligence Center, KAIST
2017.10-present, Honorary Professor, Jiangnan University, China
2017.10-present, Honorary Professor, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Academy Fellow/Member:
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, USA (2005-present)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA (2007-present)
Fellow, Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Korea (2007-present)
Fellow, Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, USA (2010-present)
Foreign Member, National Academy of Engineering, USA (2010-present)
Fellow, National Academy of Engineering of Korea, Korea (2011-present)
Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, USA (2012-present)
Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, USA (2013-present)
Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, Italy (2013-present)
Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, USA (2017-present)
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, USA (2017-present)
***As of February 2018, he is one of only 13 people in the world who are foreign member of both National Academy of Sciences USA and National Academy of Engineering USA.
Major Government/Public Committee Service: ~ more than 100 committees
Member, Preparation Committee for APEC Summit (2004)
Member, Presidential Advisory Council on Green Growth (2010-2011)
Founding Member, Board of Trustees, Samsung Science and Technology Foundation (2013-present)
Member, Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (term 12, 13, 14, 15; 2014-2017)
Member, New Industry Private-Government Committee, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (2016-present)
Member, Government Performance Evaluation Committee, Prime Minister’s Office (2016-2018)
Member, Central Environmental Policy Committee, Ministry of Environment (2018-present)
Member, National Central Strategy Committee, Government of Korea (2018-present)
Selected Honors/Awards:
1. The First Young Scientist's Award, The President of the Republic of Korea, Korea (1998. 2. 12.)
2. The First Elmer-Gaden Award, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, American
Chemical Society, USA (2000. 3. 27.)
3. Citation Classic Award, ISI, USA (2000. 11. 2.)
4. The Scientist of the Month Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea
(2001. 3. 12.)
5. SeJongDaeWang Award, Korean Intellectual Property office, Korea (2001. 4. 6.)
6. National Science and Technology Medal, President of Korea, Korea (2001. 4. 21.)
7. British Chevening Scholarship Award, British Government (2001. 6.)
8. Asian Young Leader/Asian Technology Pioneer, World Economic Forum,
Switzerland (2002. 8. 23.)
9. Professor of the Year Award, KAIST, Korea (2003. 1. 2.)
10. "Scientist to Become" Award, Ministry of Science & Technology, Korea (2003. 7.
29.)
11. The Best Research Award, KAIST, Korea (2004. 2. 16.)
12. The 9th Young Engineer Award, National Academy of Engineering Korea, Korea
(2005. 3. 10.)
13. Scientist of the Year Award, Korean Science Reporters Association (KOSRA) ,
Korea (2006. 11. 30)
14. Selected as 100 Excellent National R&D Results (2003-2005), Ministry of Science
and Technology, Korea (2006)
15. Merck Award for Metabolic Engineering, Metabolic Engineering VII, Puerto
Vallata, Mexico, by Merck, USA (2008.09.16)
16. 2010 Fellow Award, Society for Industrial Microbiology, San Francisco, USA
(2010.8.)
17. The Best Research Award, KAIST, Korea (2011.2.16)
18. POSCO TJ Park Science Prize, POSCO TJ Park Foundation, Korea (2011.03.22)
19. 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, United States
Environmental Protection Agency, USA (2011.6.20)
20. Amgen Keynote Lectureship Award, Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial
Microbiology, New Orleans, USA (2011.7.24)
21. 2012 KAIST Top 10 R&D Achievements, KAIST, Korea (2012.2.16)
22. Marvin J. Johnson Award, American Chemical Society, USA (2012. 3. 27)
23. Charles Thom Award, Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology,
USA (2012.8.16)
24. Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, USA (2012-present)
25. Outstanding Contribution Award (on biotechnology), Minister for Food,
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (at the International Biotechnology
Symposium, Daegu), Korea (2012.9.21)
26. The Fifth Environmental Microbiology Lectureship Award, Society for Applied
Microbiology-Wiley, Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK (2012.10.8)
27. Orsted Lectureship, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
(2012.10.12)
28. Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award, Beijing, China (2013.6.19)
29. The 1st Jacobus van’t Hoff Lectureship Award, Technical University of Delft,
Delft, Netherlands (2013.11.13)
30. The Best Scientist Award of the Year, Korea Science Journalist Association,
Korea (2013.11.29)
31. Grand Prize for Academic Excellence, KAIST, Korea (2014.02.14)
32. 2013 KAIST Top 10 R&D Achievements, KAIST, Korea (2014.02.14)
33. The Ho-Am Prize in Engineering, Ho-Am Foundation, Korea (2014.05.30)
34. The Best National R&D Achievement, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future
Planning (2014.7.24)
35. National Order of Merit- Red Stripes from President of Korea, The 50th
Invention Day Ceremony, Korea (2015.5.19)
36. Nature Biotechnology's Top 20 Translational Researchers of 2014 (2015.8.27)
37. Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability Best Innovation Award
2015, Denmark (2015.8.31)
38. 2016 James E. Bailey Award, Hilton Hotel Union Square, San Francisco, USA
(2016.11.15)
39. Grand Prize in Overall Accomplishments, Commemoration of the 46th
Anniversary of Founding of KAIST, Korea (2017.02.16)
40. 2017 Korea Best Scientist and Technologist Award, President of Korea
(2017.07.07)
41. 2017 Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate (previously Thomson-Reuters ISI),USA
(2017)
42. S-Oil, Grand Prize Advisor Award, S-Oil Excellent PhD Competition, Korea
(2018.2.6)
43. George Washington Carver Award, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO),
USA (2018.7.18)
Journal Editor and board member: More than 35 journals including
1. Associate Editor, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Springer, Germany
(2004-present)
2. Associate Editor, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Wiley, USA (2005-present)
3. Editor-in-Chief, Biotechnology Journal, Wiley-VCH, Germany (2008-present)
4. Editor, mBio, American Academy of Microbiology, USA (2010-present)
5. Section Editor, BMC Systems Biology, BioMedCentral, UK (2010-present)
6. Associate Editor, Microbial Cell Factories, BioMedCentral, UK (2010-present)
7. Series Editor, Advanced Biotechnology Book Series, Wiley-VCH, Germany
(2012-present)
8. Regional Editor, Journal of Biological Engineering, BioMedCentral, UK
(2016-present)
9. Guest Editor, PNAS, National Academy of Sciences, USA (2017-present)
10. Editor-in-Chief, Metabolic Engineering, Elsevier (2018-present)
11. Founding Chair of the Editorial Board, BMC Biomedical Engineering
(2018-present)
12. Founding Chair of the Advisory Board, BMC Chemical Engineering
(2018-present)
近期论文
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1. Lee, J.W., Na, D., Park, J.M., Lee, J., Choi, S., and Lee, S.Y., "Systems metabolic
engineering of microorganisms for natural and non-natural chemicals", Nature
Chemical Biology, 8: 536-546 (2012)
2. Na, D., Yoo, S.M., Chung, H., Park, H., Park, J.H., and Lee, S.Y., "Metabolic
engineering of Escherichia coli using synthetic small regulatory RNAs", Nature
Biotechnology, 31: 170-174 (2013)
3. Choi, Y.J., Lee, S.Y., "Microbial production of short-chain alkanes", Nature, 502:
571-574 (2013)-journal cover paper
4. Park, S.H., Kim, H.U., Kim, T.Y., Park, J.S., Kim, S.-S. and Lee, S.Y., "Metabolic
engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for L-arginine production", Nature
Communications, 5: 1-9 (2014)
5. Lee, S.Y., Kim, H.U., "Systems strategies for developing industrial microbial
strains", Nature Biotechnology, 33(10): 1061–1072 (2015)
6. Kim, H.U., Ryu, J.Y., Lee, J.O. and Lee, S.Y., "A systems approach to traditional
oriental medicine", Nature Biotechnology, 33:264-268 (2015)
7. Choi, S.Y., Park, S.J., Kim, W.J., Yang, J.E., Lee, H., Shin, J., and Lee, S.Y.
"One-step fermentative production of poly(lactate-co-glycolate) from
carbohydrates in Escherichia coli", Nature Biotechnology, 34(4): 435-440 (2016)
8. Luo, Z.W. and Lee, S.Y. "Biotransformation of p-xylene into terephthalic acid by
engineered Escherichia coli", Nature Communications, 8:15689, DOI:10.1038/nco
mms15689 (2017)
9. Ryu, J.Y., Kim, H.U., and Lee, S.Y. "Deep learning improves prediction of drug–
drug and drug–food interactions", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 201803294: 1-8 (2018)
10. Choi, Y., Park, T.J., Lee, D.C., and Lee, S.Y. "Recombinant Escherichia coli as
a biofactory for various single- and multi-element nanomaterials", Proc. Nat.
Acad. Sci., 115(23): 5944-5949 (2018)