Professors

Sang-Mook Lee is a marine geophysicist interested in the study of active tectonics and geodynamic of problems on a global scale. He been involved in many seagoing scientific cruises until 2006 when he became quadriplegic as a result of car accident. Since then, his area of interest has extended to include the field of computational sciences and higher education for the people with disability. He sits on many important government advisory boards related with disability issues. Currently (since 2020) he is serving as the Chair of InterRidge and Project Manager of Planet A whose goal is to build global database on earth and environmental data and apply artificial intelligence techniques to better understand the future of our planet. Sang-Mook’s important contribution includes his testimony under oath at National Assembly in 2015 which opened the doors for the sharing of major research vessels by the government for all academic communities in in Korea.

• Ph.D., Ocean Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA, 1995
• B.S., Oceanography, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1985

• Visiting Scientist, Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), The University of Tokyo, 2019
• Visiting Scientist, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), University of Paris VII, Diderot, 2014
• Head and Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program in Computational Sciences and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Computational Science and Technology, Seoul National University, 2011-
• Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, 2023-present
• Associate and Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, 2003-2023

1. Yoon-Mi Kim and Sang-Mook Lee, (2018). Analysis of Gravity Anomalies in the Ulleung Basin (East Sea/Sea of Japan) and Its Implications for the Crustal Structure of Rift-dominated Back-arc Basin. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 274, 63–71. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2017.10.002
2. Sang-Mook Lee and Etienne Ruellan, (2006). Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea: Review and New Synthesis. in Back-Arc Spreading Systems: Geological, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Interactions, edited by David M. Christie, Charles R. Fisher, Sang-Mook Lee and Sharon Givens. Geophysical Monograph Series 166, 267-290, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, doi: 10.1029/GM166
3. Sang-Mook Lee, (2004). Deformation from the convergence of oceanic lithosphere into Yap Trench and its implications for early-stage subduction. Journal of Geodynamics, 37, 83-102, doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2003.10.003