Prof LEE Hian Kee

PhD, BSc (Hons)(University of Canterbury)

Department of Chemistry
  



Outstanding Researcher Award

"Not only should science be conducted for the benefit of mankind but it should be done without harm to the environment."

Research Interests
  • Environmentally-friendly liquid-phase and solid-phase microextraction
  • Capillary electrophoresis
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry
  • Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
  • Microreactors o Environmental analysis

Research Achievements
  • Pioneer in liquid-phase microextraction (LPME) which has contributed immensely to the sample preparation field in the analytical sciences
  • Came up subsequently with improved variants such as hollow fibre-protected LPME, polymer-coated hollow fibre LPME, continuous-flow microextraction, solvent-bar microextraction, water-based organic solvent-free LPME
  • His efficient, cost-effective and environmental-friendly approaches are now widely applied to the sample preparation field, as well as to nanoscale extraction in microchip systems

Research Strengths
  • A strong focus on the development of miniaturised sample preparation procedures that are "green" or environmental-friendly and sustainable
  • Close collaboration with very dedicated students and colleagues

Publication Credits
  • Published about 235 journal papers and presented 200 conference papers
  • His publications have received about 2,400 citations

International Standing
  • Editor of Analytica Chimica Acta, a top-three analytical chemistry journal
  • Editorial Board Member of Journal of Chromatography A, the top chromatography journal
  • International Advisory Board Member of The Analyst, a top-three analytical chemistry journal
  • Advisory Board Member of Analytical Sciences, Asia's top analytical chemistry journal
  • Reviewer for international grant bodies such as the US National Science Foundation, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Australian Research Council and Austrian Science Fund
  • Reviewer for more than 20 chemistry journals

Awards and Accolades
  • Serves as an expert for the United Nations Environment Programme on persistent organic pollutants
  • National Project Coordinator, United Nations University (Japan) Programme on East Asia Coastal Hydrosphere
  • Plenary, keynote or invited speaker at numerous conferences such as the International Symposium on Advances in Extraction Technologies;International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography; International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography; International Conference on Measurement and Monitoring of the Environment; Asianalysis and Asian Chemical Congress

Research Aspiration
To enable every environmental analytical scientist, especially those who do not have enormous resources at their disposal, apply the analytical techniques that we have developed.