Sunghee Lee joined the group in December of 1992 with extensive experience in physical chemistry acquired in graduate school at POSTECH. She pioneered the Silicon/Silicon Oxide interface project as the first graduate student in the group. She graduated with her Ph.D. in the fall of 1996 and won the Brown Chemistry department's Potter prize for the best Ph.D. thesis. After graduating, Sunghee worked in various areas of chemistry and materials science, most recently at Duke University, focusing on biomaterials engineering for an application of the active carrier delivery system. Sunghee is now an assistant professor of chemistry at Iona College. 

The Reaction of H₈Si₈O₁₂ with a Chromium Oxide Surface:  a model for stainless steel surface modification.  J. N Greeley, S. Lee, M. M. Banaszak Holl.  Appl. Organomet. Chem.  1999, 13, 279-285.

 Construction of Solid/Solid Interface Models using Modular Chemistry: the Si/SiO₂ Interface. S. Lee, M. M. Banaszak Holl, W. H. Hung,  F. R. McFeely  in   Modular Chemistry , edited by J. Michl (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1997), p 451.

 An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Si 2p Core-Level  Photoemission Shift Assignments at the Si/SiO₂ Interface.  J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B  1996, 14, 2824.  F. R. McFeely, K. Z. Zhang, M. M. Banaszak Holl, S. Lee, J. E. Bender.

 Photoemission Assignments of H_xSiO_4-x fragments in the Si/SO_x Interface          Region.  Appl.  Phys.  Lett.  1996, 68, 1081.  Sunghee Lee,  Mark M. Banaszak Holl, Wei Hsiu Hung, F. R. McFeely.

 Synthetic Control of Solid/Solid Interfaces:  Analysis of Three New Silicon/Silicon Oxide Interfaces by Soft X-ray Photoemission.   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994, 116, 11819.   S. Lee,  S. Makan,  M. M. Banaszak Holl, F. R. McFeely. 

Core Level Photoemission and the Structure of the Si/SiO₂ Interface:  a reappraisal.  Appl.  Phys. Lett. 1994, 65, 1097.  M. M. Banaszak Holl, S. Lee, F. R. McFeely.