B.S., National Taiwan University (1973)

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA (1979)

Research Associate, Aeronomy Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric, Administration–Environmental Research Laboratories (1979–1981)

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University (1981–1985)

Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University (1985–2004)

Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic & Molecular Sciences, Academia
Sinica (1988–present)

Professor & Director, Department of Applied Chemistry & Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University (2004–present)

Dean, College of Science, National Chiao Tung University (2005–2008)

Spectral, kinetic and dynamic studies of unstable species which are important in combustion or atmospheric chemistry

Laser-induced fluorescence and VUV absorption or photoionization

Infrared emission or absorption, degenerate four-wave mixing and two-color resonant four-wave mixing

Time-resolved Fourier-transform spectroscopy and matrix-isolation spectroscopy

Ultrafast reaction and energy transfer

"Internal Rotation and Spin Conversion of CH₃OH in Solid Para-Hydrogen", Y.-P. Lee and Y.-J. Wu et al., Science 311, 365 (2006). 

"Infrared absorption of CH₃SO₂ detected with time-resolved Fourier-transform spectroscopy", L.-K. Chu and Y.-P. Lee, J. Chem. Phys. 124, 244301 (2006). 

"The B³Σ state of the SO radical", C.-P. Liu and Y.-P. Lee et al., J. Mol. Spectrosc. 238, 213 (2006). 

"Distribution of internal state of CO from O (¹D) + CO determined with time-resolved Fourier-transform spectroscopy", H.-F. Chen and Y.-P. Lee, J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 12096 (2006). 

"Experimental and theoretical investigation of rate coefficients of the reaction S (³P) + OCS in the temperature range 298-985 K", C.-W. Lu and Y.-P. Lee et al., J. Chem. Phys. 125, 164329 (2006).