International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 121 (2018) 1376–1377

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In Celebration

In Celebration of Professor Joon Sik Lee on his 65th birthday

Joon Sik Lee was born in Busan, Korea, on September 11, 1952.
He spent elementary and middle school periods in Busan until heentered Gyunggi High School located in Seoul. Professor Lee
received his Bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from Seoul
National University in 1976. During the school days, he wasinvolved in ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) for two years,
and after graduation he served as a section commander in an army
ordnance unit for two years until he left the army as first lieutenant. After finishing his military service, he was back to Seoul
National University for his master’s degree which he got in 1980.
After then, he ambitiously challenged himself to soar to newheights in his career in the United States for his graduate study,
and he continued studying at the University of California at Berkeley. During his graduate studies, he was fascinated by various heattransfer applications and carried out fundamental studies on convective and radiative heat transfer in particulate flows under thesupervision of Professor Joseph Humphrey, and received his Ph.D.
in 1985.
After spending 6 months as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence
Berkeley Lab., Professor Lee returned to the Department ofMechanical Engineering at Seoul National University in September,
1985, as an Assistant Professor. He retired from the same department after 31 years of glorious and splendid professorship.
His research covers both fundamental and applied areas frombasic heat transfer to gas turbine technology. Professor Lee developed thermal processes by analyzing the gas radiation and thesolidification of multi-component liquid accompanied by complicated heat transfer phenomena. He also made great achievements
in heat transfer technologies related to gas turbines. In the 1990s,
he introduced the heat transfer measurement technique using
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thermochromic liquid crystal and actively used the large eddy simulation for the convective heat transfer problems. As for the film
cooling of gas turbine blades, the influences of the bulk flow pulsations and vortices embedded in the boundary layer, which are considered to be major challenges, have been clarified. For internalconvection cooling, heat transfer enhancement mechanisms installing ribs and dimples were thoroughly elucidated based on large
eddy simulation. He devoted himself to the micro/nano scale heattransfer problems in this century. Simulations based on the Boltzmann transport equation have been conducted to predict thermophysical properties in a micro/nano scale and novel measurement
techniques, such as 3x method, have been developed to provethem. Various micro fluidic devices including micro mixers andpumps have been developed by studying channel design, coolingsystem, and conjugate heat transfer. Recently, his research interest
has moved to advanced thermoelectric materials such as silicondoped graphene.
For three decades, his research findings and those of his students, have contributed in various sectors of heat transfer andrelated fields. As a consequence, Professor Lee has published morethan 180 archival journal papers in addition to many conference
papers in the areas of heat transfer, thermoscience, micro/nanotechnology and energy systems. Using his special talent to relate
his research to teaching, his lectures have been popular among students for decades and recognized through teaching awards.
With his enthusiasm on education, he put every effort in teaching undergraduate and graduate students. His soft and powerful
guidance made many students respect him and still now great
number of students are eager to follow him. So far, 116 Ph.D.’sand Masters were educated, and all of them are playing a great roleat universities, enterprises, government offices, and diverse
institutions.
In addition to his distinguished research and teaching career,
Professor Lee has held many administrative positions as well. For
ten years, he had directed the Micro Thermal System Research Center which was supported by Korean government and many industries. He also served as the Director of Institute of Advanced
Machinery and Design at Seoul National University for two years.
Professor Lee has also devoted himself to various academic societies. He was the organizer/chair of various conferences, including
the 11th International Heat Transfer Conference (1998), and the18th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP18) (2007). He served as the Delegate of the Assembly for the International Heat Transfer Conferences, and Executive Committee
Member of International Centre for Heat & Mass Transfer. Hewas also the Vice President of the Pacific Center for Thermal-FluidsEngineering.

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Professor Lee’s international activities include service as amember of the advisory/editorial boards or an editor of the Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, the Experimental
Heat Transfer, the International Journal of Transport Phenomena,
the Journal of Heat Transfer, the Computational Thermal Sciences,and the International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration.
He also contributed to a university administration as the Chiefof the Office of Research Affairs and then as the Vice President
on research affairs at SNU. He was appointed as a member of theNational Science & Technology Council covering big science andgreen technologies. He also served as the Chair of the Creative
Economy Division in the Presidential Advisory Council on Science& Technology. After his early retirement from Seoul National
University, he served as the Deputy Prime Minister in the Korean
government and as the Minister of Education as dual
appointments.
In this occasion of his 65th birthday and retirement from Seoul
National University, we would like to deeply recognize his professional, societal, and humane achievements and express our greatwish for his everlasting good health and happiness from the bottom of our hearts.

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Min Soo Kim
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
E-mail address: minskim@snu.ac.kr
Jae Dong Chung
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006,
Republic of Korea
Joon Ahn
School of Mechanical Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul 02707,
Republic of Korea
Hideo YoshidaDepartment of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyoto University,
Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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