Johnny W. Lee

Johnny was born and grew up in New York, United States. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in 2015 at Stony Brook University and is soon to complete his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Ming-Yu Ngai at the same university. His doctoral work has focused in the area of modern fluorine chemistry, in which he designed and developed novel perfluoroalkoxylation strategies of aromatic compounds under visible-light photoredox conditions. Johnny’s research interests are in catalytic chemistry and how it can be used to aid discovery of new therapeutics.