Seung Joo Lee is a South Korean physicist, educator and military scientist. He received his B.S. (1974) and M.S. (1977) from

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a public university, public research university in Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the SKY (universities), SKY universities and a part of the Flagship Korean National Universities. The university's main c ...

, and PhD in 1981 from the

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and since became a Fellow of the Korean Physical Society and a Member of the American Physical Society. In 2010 he became a life

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of the

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. He had

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experience in

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in 1985-1986 and visiting professorships at the

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and

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Stuttgart, and

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SUNY. In 1999 he became the Vice President of the Korean Physical Society and

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of J. of KPS and New Physics journals. Since 2001 he has been a professor at QSRC

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following his appointment at the

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where he was Professor and Dean of Academic Board, Brigadier General. He has been also a member of the Commission of the Semiconductors

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(2005–2011) and vice chairman of the Commission of the Semiconductors

(2011-2014). His research interests include electrical and magnetic properties of low-dimensional electron gases,

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based on diluted magnetic semiconductors and multiferroic/ferroelectric semiconductors. Throughout his career Dr Lee has received numerous commendations,

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, and the

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(Suk-Ryu-Jang, Cheun-Su-Jang) from the office of the

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and from the South Korean Ministry of National Defense.Epir.com
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