C Justin Lee, PhD

Dr. C. Justin Lee is a neuroscientist specializing in the field of glioscience. He is currently the Managing Director of Life Sciences and the Director of Center for Cognition and Sociality at Institute for Basic Science(IBS) from 2018. He has been on the editorial boards of the journals Molecular Brain and Molecular Pain and is a chief editor of Experimental Neurobiology. He has also served as Professor at IBS school of UST, Adjunct Professor at KU-KIST and UNIST.

In 2004, Dr. Lee started his professional career at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST) and participated in establishing brain science research infrastructure at KIST, first as a founding member of the Center for Neuroscience with Director Hee-sup Shin. The Center is now a constituent of KIST’s Brain Science Institute. He served as the Director of Center for Neuroscience at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and later founded the WCI Center for Fuctional Connectomics.