2011 Best Research Award for the greatest number of citations Lee Kwang-hee, born in 1960, is a South Korean physicist.
Lee is currently a full professor of the Materials Science & Engineering Department and a vice-director of the Heeger Center for Advanced Materials at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in Korea.
In 1990 he migrated to the US for his doctorate study at the University of California, in Santa Barbara (UCSB) and obtained his Ph.D. in March 1995 under the supervision of one Professor Alan J. Heeger.
After finishing his post-doctoral work at UCSB in 1997, Lee started his professorship at the Pusan National University in South Korea.
In 2007, Lee moved to his current position of a Full Professor at GIST.