Nam Ki Lee

Nam Ki Lee

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Seoul National University

E-mail: namkilee@snu.ac.kr

Dr. Lee completed his Bachelor of Science degree at Seoul National University in 1998 and received his M.S. and Ph. D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the same institute in 2000 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Lee took postdoctoral training under Sunney Xie at Harvard University and joined Pohang University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor in 2009. Then, he moved to Seoul National University in 2017. Dr. Lee was awarded the excellent research project by the ministry of education (South Korea, 2016), the Sigma-Aldrich Chemist Award of the Korean Chemical Society (2019), and Excellent Research from the College of Natural Science (SNU) (2021). The main focus of his research is to establish valuable methods for single-molecule FRET and single-protein detection in living cells and then use these techniques to explore promising biological problems. He currently studies transcription dynamics in a living bacterial cell, observing membrane protein interactions in a living mammalian cell, DNA bending mechanics, and alpha-synuclein interaction with vesicle-fusion machineries in Parkinson’s disease in collaboration with outstanding research groups