Education
- Ph.D. University of Pune, India (2008)
- M.S. University of Delhi, India (2005)
- B.S., Pusan National University (1987)
Professional Experience
- Visiting Professor of Physics, Grand Valley State University, Aug. 2011 - Present.
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Research Associate, Michigan State University, 2011 to 2012.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of New Orleans, 2009 to 2011.
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Visiting Research Associate, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2009.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), 2007 to 2009.\
Teaching
- PHY 220: General Physics with Labs, Fall 2012, W 2013.
Research Interest
Condensed matter physics, Computational physics, ab initio density-functional-based calculations, Molecular dynamics simulations.
- Thermoelectric materials : The electronic structure and transport properties of half- and full-Heusler compounds.
- Surface science: surface reconstructions, topological insulators.
- High-pressure physics: phase transitions in molecular systems, with applications to materials science, geophysics and planetary science.
- Phonon, infrared and Raman spectra of various systems such as clusters, bulk systems.
- Geometric and electronic structures, and thermodynamic properties of small clusters
Publications
1. Dat Do, Vidvuds Ozolins, S D Mahanti, Mal-Soon Lee, Yongsheng Zhang, and C. Wolverton, “Physics of band gap formation in Cu-Sb-Se based novel thermoelectrics: the role of Sb valency and Cu d levels”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24, 415502 (2012).
2. Mal-Soon Lee and S. D. Mahanti, “Validity of the rigid band approximation in the study of thermoelectric properties of narrow band gap semiconductors”, Phys. Rev. B 85, 165149 (2012).
3. Mal-Soon Lee and Sandro Scandolo, “Mixtures of planetary ices at extreme conditions”, Nat. Commun. 2:185 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1184 (2011).
4. Mal-Soon Lee, Ferdinand P. Poudeu, and S. D. Mahanti, “Electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of Sb-based semiconducting half-Heusler compounds”, Phys. Rev. B 83, 085204 (2011).
5. Khang Hoang, Mal-Soon Lee, S. D. Mahanti, and P. Jena, “Clusters: An Embryonic Form of Crystals and Nano-structures”, in Nanoclusters - A Bridge across Discipline, edited by Purusottam Jena and A. Welford Castleman Jr., Elsevier, 2010.
6. Jian Sun, Dennis D. Klug, Roman Martonak, Javier Antonio Montoya, Mal-Soon Lee, Sandro Scandolo, and Erio Tosatti, “High-pressure polymeric phases of carbon dioxide”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106, 6077 (2009).
7. Mal-Soon Lee, F. Baletto, D. G. Kanhere, and S. Scandolo, “Far-infrared absorption of small water clusters by first-principles molecular dynamics”, J. Chem. Phys. 128, 214506 (2008).
8. Mal-Soon Lee, D. G. Kanhere, “Effects of geometric and electronic structure on the finite temperature behavior of Na58, Na57, and Na55 clusters”, Phys. Rev. B 75, 125427 (2007).
Professional Service
- Member of American physical Society.
- Member of International Thermoelectric Society since 2011..
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