Quantum Materials Synthesis | Advanced Characterization

Ho Nyung Lee
Condensed Matter Physicist | ORNL Corporate Fellow
Fellow of KAST, APS, and MRS 





Contacts: (865) 574-9782 | hnlee at ornl.gov

Corporate Fellow (2021 – current)

Serve as a corporate fellow council member and lead research in the area of experimental condensed matter physics to understand and discover emergent quantum phenomena in oxide thin films and heterostructures.

Program Director, ORNL Materials Sciences and Engineering Program (2017-2024) 

Led one of the largest DOE-BES-MSE portfolios involving approximately 100 scientific staff, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and research support staff; responsible for coordinating and leading the science and technology agenda for the DOE-BES to deliver research in the areas of quantum materials, quantum information science, soft matter, and structural materials.

Interim Director, Materials Science and Technology Division (2019)

Led ORNL’s largest R&D division with over 250 staff

Group Leader, Quantum Heterostructures Group (formerly Thin Films and Nanostructures) (2013-2020)

Led a research group  conducting  experimental research on correlated topological quantum materials and oxide heterostructures through precision synthesis and advanced spectroscopy 

R&D Staff (currently Corporate Fellow), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2002 -)

Conduct research on the physics of functional oxide thin films and heterostructures, and precision synthesis by pulsed later deposition

Postdoc (1999-2002), Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle/Saale, Germany

Physics of layered ferroelectric thin films and PLD synthesis of epitaxial ferroelectrics

Advisor: Prof. D. Hesse and Prof. U. Goesele

Ph.D. Korea University (1999)

Ferroelectric thin films and device applications for ferroelectric random access memories 

Advisor: Sung Ho Choh

Awards and Honors

Fellow, Materials Research Society (2023)

Fellow, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (2021)

ORNL Corporate Fellow (2020)

Fellow, American Physical Society (2016)

UT-Battelle Science and Technology Award (Scientific Research), ORNL (2012)

Named as Frontier Research Scientist, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology ( 2011)

Associate Fellow, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), Nov. 2010~

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Executive Office of the President of the United States (2007)

Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award: United States Department of Energy (2007)

UT-Battelle Science and Technology Award (Scientific Research), ORNL (2005)

Bombi Prize (inaugural): The Korean Physical Society (2002)

Best Poster Awards (consecutively!): MRS (2000, 2001)

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