Soo Yeol Lee is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University. He holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Korea University, an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee, gained in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. After graduation, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia and the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre (2010–2012). He was also a visiting scholar in nuclear engineering at the North Carolina State University (2018–2019). His research interests include the deformation, damage, and failure analysis of advanced structural alloys, the development and application of neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering techniques in materials research, the application of electrochemistry in metals and alloys, and theoretical and constitutive modeling.