Tae Geol Lee is a Vice-President in the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS). He received his B.S. in chemistry, M.S. and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Seoul National University. At the University of Toronto (Dept. of Chemistry), he was a member of group headed by Professor John Polanyi, which studied reaction dynamics of surface-aligned molecules by using time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF-MS). He currently collaborates with medical doctors for medical applications and standardization by using surface-analysis tools.