Stimuli-Responsive Dewetting/Wetting Smart Surfaces and Interfaces / Biologically-Inspired Systems Bd.11 (PDF)

Research Award (Germany, 2017), Nikkei Asia Prize (Japan, 2016), MRS Mid-Career Researcher Award (USA, 2014), National Natural Science Award (China, 2005), and many other honors and awards. He has published over 500 papers including 3 papers in Nature, 1 paper in Science, 1 paper in Nature Nanotechnology, 1paper in Nature Reviews Materials, 1 paper in Nature Materials, 6 papers in Natural Communication, 5 papers in Science Advance, 3 papers in Chem. Rev., 7 papers in Chem. Soc. Rev., 6 papers in Acc. Chem. Res., 46 papers in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 31 papers in J. Am. Chem. Soc., and 128 papers in Adv. Mater., the works have been cited more than 56000 times with an H index of 117.Professor Haeshin Lee studied at KAIST where he received his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences between in 1996. He received his Ph.D. degree at Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University in 2007. He startedhis professional carrier from 2009 at Department of Chemistry, KAIST. He is a currently director of Center for Nature-inspired Technology (CNiT) at KAIST. Haeshin Lee invented the first material-independent surface chemistry named 'polydopamine' in 2007, and this study has been one of the most cited paper in surface chemistry. He is the founding member of Korea Academy of Science Young Scholars and is an Associate Editor in Biomaterials Science (RSC).

After graduating from Kyushu University in 1980, Masatsugu Shimomura engaged in the field of biomimetic chemistry as an assistant professor of Prof. Toyoki Kunitake's laboratory. He developed the research of polymeric Langmuir-Blodgett films at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology as an associate professor from 1985, and moved to Hokkaido University at 1993 for starting a new laboratory of the bottom-up nanotechnology based on self-organization and biomimetics. Self-organized honeycomb-patterned polymer films arenewly developed by collaboration with many industrial companies and the RIKEN institute where he held concurrently post of the principle investigator from 1999 to 2007. After moving to Tohoku University at 2007 he organized a national research project on Engineering Neo-Biomimetics, and started an educational program on biomimetics at Chitose Institute of Science and Technology from 2014. He worked with Prof. Helmut Ringsdorf of Mainz University in 1982 and Prof. Erich Sackmann of TU-Munich in 1987, respectively. He is a Professor emeritus of Hokkaido University and Tohoku University.