Brian Ree earned his B.A. in Chemistry from Macalester College, M.S. in Polymer chemistry from POSTECH, and Ph.D. in Polymer chemistry with Prof. Toshifumi Satoh from Hokkaido University in 2020. After working as a specially-appointed assistant professor in Hokkaido University and as a research scientist at Air Force Research Laboratory, he joined Kean University as a faculty in 2023. His research focuses on the development and characterization of functional and structural polymers that derive their unique features and properties from key functional groups present within polymer chains and morphology of polymer chains.