Hyung-Sool Lee

Hyung-Sool Lee

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Hyung-Sool Lee


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Hyung-Sool Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is also the Director of the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Environmental Biotechnology Lab at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.

His research mainly involves fundamentals and applications of Microbial Electrochemical Cells (MECs) for resource-recovering waste and wastewater treatment, bio-batteries, and biosensors. In addition, Professor Lee has worked for anaerobic membrane bioreactor, dark fermentation, and anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to denitrification.

As a result of his research work, Professor Lee has published over 90 journals and conference proceedings and holds 7 patents in total.

Hyung-Sool Lee is a member of the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Centre for Microbial Research (/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/).

Research interests

  • Microbial fuel cells
  • Microbial electrolysis cells
  • Biohydrogen
  • Fermentation
  • Biochemicals
  • Bioeduction of oxidized contaminants
  • Thermodynamics in bacterial metabolism
  • Kinetics in bacterial metabolisms
  • Model development in biofilm systems
  • Microbial ecology
  • Bio-energy production
  • Microbial ecology in engineered biological systems
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Model development for microbial reactions
  • Production of bio-energy and bio-chemicals from biomass
  • Nutrients recovery from organic waste and seawater
  • Thermodynamic/kinetic analyses on microbial metabolisms in engineered and natural systems
  • Electricity H2 and CH4

Education

  • 2005, Doctorate, Environmental Biotechnology; Bioenergy, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
  • 2000, Master of Engineering, Environmental engineering; Biological nitrogen removal, Inha University
  • 1998, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Environmental Engineering, Inha University

Courses*

  • CIVE 375 - Environmental Engineering Principles
    • Taught in 2020, 2021
  • CIVE 770 - Topics in Environmental Engineering
    • Taught in 2021
  • ENVE 375 - Physico-Chemical Processes
    • Taught in 2021

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/recent publications

  • Ren, Hao and Tian, He and Lee, Hyung-Sool and Park, Taejin and Leung, Frederick C and Ren, Tian-Ling and Chae, Junseok, Regulating the respiration of microbe: A bio-inspired high performance microbial supercapacitor with graphene based electrodes and its kinetic features, Nano Energy, 15, 2015, 697 - 708
  • An, Junyeong and Kim, Bongkyu and Chang, In Seop and Lee, Hyung-Sool, Shift of voltage reversal in stacked microbial fuel cells, Journal of Power Sources, 278, 2015, 534 - 539
  • An, Junyeong and Lee, Hyung-Sool, Occurrence and implications of voltage reversal in stacked microbial fuel cells, ChemSusChem, 7(6), 2014, 1689 - 1695
  • Ju, SM and Pae, HO and Kim, WS and Kang, DG and Lee, HS and Jeon, BH, Role of reactive oxygen species in p53 activation during cisplatin-induced apoptosis of rat mesangial cells, European review for medical and pharmacological sciences, 18(8), 2014, 1135 - 1141
  • An, Junyeong and Kim, Bongkyu and Jang, Jae Kyung and Lee, Hyung-Sool and Chang, In Seop, New architecture for modulization of membraneless and single-chambered microbial fuel cell using a bipolar plate-electrode assembly (BEA), Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 59, 2014, 28 - 34

Graduate studies