Zonghoon Lee is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, and served as the department head for four years. Since 2019, he has been a group leader and co-affiliated with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials. He leads the characterization group. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Yonsei University, and his Ph.D. from Materials Science Department at the University of Southern California in 2003. He then joined the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow and became a senior staff member. After six years in Berkeley, he returned to Korea and joined UNIST as a faculty member in 2011. He founded the Atomic Imaging Center and the Center for Multidimensional Programmable Matter. He supervised the installation of the FEI Titan G2 Cube with double correctors and monochromator. He has published more than 200 journal papers with more than 17,000 citations in the field of materials science and transmission electron microscopy. He is the editor-in-chief of Applied Microscopy, published by Springer Nature and the Korean Society of Microscopy. He has served as president of the Korean Society of Microscopy and the treasurer of the Committee of Asia Pacific Societies for Microscopy (CAPSM). His research focuses on the atomic-scale characterization, design and synthesis, and properties of 2D materials, carbon nanomaterials, and soft matter using aberration-corrected S/TEM and spectroscopy. His studies include in situ TEM experiments at both the atomic and nanoscale.