Prof Lee Pooi See is a Principal Investigator at SGSR at SHARE. She holds a position of Associate Professor, at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at NTU, Singapore.
Prof Pooi See awarded her Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore in 2002. She joined NTU as an assistant professor in 2004 and became a tenured associated professor in 2009. She was promoted to full professor in 2015.
She worked in the semiconductor industry on microelectronics integration upon her graduation.
Prof Pooi See has authored and co-authored many publications in the field of nanomaterials for energy and electronics applications. She holds more than 30 patents filed/provisional applications at present. She served as the Sub-Dean/Asst. Chair (undergraduate)in MSE from July 2004-2008, Associate Chair (Research) in June 2012-2014, and Associate Chair (Faculty) in March 2014. She was awarded the National Day Awards, Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2014. Pooi See is a recipient of the prestigious NRF Investigatorship, Class 2015. From 2016 to 2019, she served as the Associate Dean in College of Engineering. She is appointed as the Dean of Graduate College in 2020.
Prof Pooi See is a member of Materials Research Society and she serves as the editorial board member of Advanced Energy Materials, Account of Materials Research, Advanced Intelligent Systems, Batteries & Super caps, NPG Asia Materials, PLOS One, Scientific Reports and Frontier. She is the Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters and Associate Editor of STAM. She is interested in synthesizing innovative nanomaterials, and harnessing its multi-functionality through understanding the structural-property characteristics. She has developed high energy capacitors, energy saving electrochromic coatings, novel transparent conductors, flexible and stretchable devices. She is keen in advancing the frontier of green nanotechnology and to translate research outcomes into real solutions. She is elected as the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow in 2020, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.