Dr. Hyeon Jeong Lee is an Assistant Professor in the College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science at Zhejiang University. She earned her B.S. in Biochemical Science and Technology from National Taiwan University and her Ph.D. in Comparative Pathobiology through the Interdisciplinary Life Science (PULSe) program at Purdue University. After that, she worked as a postdoctoral associate at Boston University Photonics Center. Her research interest centers on the development and application of biophotonics techniques for functional imaging and modulation at the subcellular level to decipher the molecular machinery of life.
Her research accomplishments were recognized through multiple awards, including the Innovator Under 35 Asia Pacific by MIT Technology Review in 2021. Her work was selected as Paper of the Year and spotlight article. Hyeon Jeong is currently serving on a committee in the Optica Molecular Probes and Nanobio-Optics technical group, a junior director in the Metabolic Biology branch of the Biophysical Society of China (BSC), and a junior committee in the Chinese Optical Society Biomedical Optics division. She is serving as a guest editor of Photonics and is invited to organize international conferences. She has served as a reviewer for international female scientists awards.