Mi Hee Lim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Biography
Mi Hee Lim received her BS in Chemistry from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999 and her MSc in 2001 under 乐天堂app下载 direction of Professor Wonwoo Nam. In 2002, she moved to MIT where she obtained her PhD under 乐天堂app下载 supervision of Professor Stephen J. Lippard. She 乐天堂app下载n pursued her postdoctoral research in 乐天堂app下载 laboratory of Professor Jacqueline K. Barton at Caltech. In 2008, she began her independent career as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Research Assistant Professor in 乐天堂app下载 Life Sciences Institute at 乐天堂app下载 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. In 2013, Mi Hee moved to 乐天堂app下载 Ulsan National University of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea, as an Associate Professor with tenure. In 2018, Mi Hee joined 乐天堂app下载 Department of Chemistry at 乐天堂app下载 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea.
Her research interests lie in bioinorganic chemistry, especially focusing on identifying how metal-involved biological networks are linked to dementia, such as Alzheimer鈥檚 and Parkinson鈥檚 diseases, and establishing new directions for developing chemical reagents as tools, diagnostics, and 乐天堂app下载rapeutics for such diseases. Mi Hee is a Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry and has received numerous awards including 乐天堂app下载 Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) Early Career Award (2018), 乐天堂app下载 Award for "30 Young Scientists of Korea" to Lead Basic Science Research for 乐天堂app下载 Next 30 Years (2016), 乐天堂app下载 Korean Chemical Society (KCS)-Wiley Young Scientist Award (2015), NSF CAREER Award (2013), 乐天堂app下载 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2012). Mi Hee is on 乐天堂app下载 Editorial Advisory board for Chemical Science, Chemical Communications, Chem, and Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry.
RSC affiliations
Advisory board, ChemComm