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Yen-Jie Lee is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Physics. He specializes in experimental particle physics, with a focus on high-density Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). His research involves studying proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, illuminating the dynamics of the strong force under extreme conditions, such as those present in the early universe and within neutron stars. Lee has pioneered investigations using electron-positron annihilation data and is a founding member of the Electron-Positron Alliance collaboration. He completed his undergraduate degree and Master's in Physics at National Taiwan University and obtained his PhD from MIT in 2011 under the supervision of Wit Busza. After his postdoctoral work at MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science, he joined the MIT Physics faculty in September 2013. Throughout his career, he has received several prestigious awards including the Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He was promoted to associate professor in 2018 and to full professor in 2024.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Professor in the Department of Physics specializing in experimental particle physics.