B.S., National Taiwan University, Taiwan (1959)

M.S., National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan (1961)

Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (Professor Bruce Mahan), USA (1965)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (Professor Bruce Mahan) (1965–1967)

Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University (Professor Dudley Herschbach) (1967–1968)

Assistant Professor of Chemistry (1968–71); Associate Professor of Chemistry (1971–1972); Professor of Chemistry (1973–1974), The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago

Professor of Chemistry (1974–91); University Professor (1991–1994); Professor Emeritus (1994); Graduate Professor (1994–1997), Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Principal Investigator, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1974–1994)

Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica (1994–present)

President, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (1994–2006)

Structure and chemical behavior of highly reactive polyatomic radicals and unusual transient species

Mechanisms and dynamics for elementary chemical reactions and primary photodissociation processes

The nature of intra- and intermolecular energy relaxation.

Bond-selective, regio-selective or mode-selective means to modify and manipulate chemical reactivity

Radical intermediates that are critical in combustion and atmospheric processes

"Photoisomerization and photodissociation of toluene in molecular beam", Chih-Kai Lin and Yuan T. Lee et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 4068 (2002). 

"Structural isomerism and competitive proton solvation between methanol and water in H⁺(CH₃OH)_m(H₂O)_n, m+ n=4", C. C. Wu and Yuan T. Lee et al., J. Phys. Chem. A 108, 2859 (2004). 

"Energy dependence of oxygen isotope exchange and quenching in the O(¹D)+CO₂ reaction: A crossed molecular beam study", Mark J. Perri and Yuan T. Lee et al., J. Phys. Chem. A 108, 7995 (2004).

"Virational predissociation spectra and hydrogen-bond topologies of H⁺(H₂O)₉₁₁", C. K. Lin and Yuan T. Lee et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 7, 938 (2005). 

"Photodissociation dynamics of ethyltoluence and p-fluoroethylbenzene at 193 and 248 nm", C. L. Huang and Yuan T. Lee et al., J. Phys. Chem. A 109, 4995 (2005).