Yen-jie Lee

Biography

Yen‐Jie Lee completed his undergraduate degree and Master’s in Physics at the National Taiwan University and his doctoral work at MIT in 2011 under the supervision of Wit Busza. After postdoctoral work at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT, he completed a combined CERN and Marie Curie Fellowship at CERN from 2012 to 2013. He joined the MIT Physics faculty in September 2013. He served as one of the Heavy Ion Physics Group co-conveners in the CMS collaboration from 2014 to 2016. Since 2016, he has been appointed as heavy-ion physics executive board representative in the CMS collaboration.

Research Interest

Professor Lee is an emerging leader in the field of proton‐proton and heavy ion physics, primarily studying quark‐gluon plasma (QGP), a hot and dense matter created in the collisions of heavy nuclei predicted by lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculations. He has an impressive record of extracting information about strong interactions. For example, his work at the CMS experiment at the LHC has helped to show that energy lost by energetic partons (quarks or gluons) traversing the quark‐gluon plasma is converted to lower energy particles emitted at large angles. Recently, he started a new heavy ion physics program aiming for precision measurement of charm and beauty mesons in the CMS collaboration.