Andrew Wee Thye Shen
Oct 29, 2015, 15:17 PM
Position :
Provost's Chair Professor of Physics, National University of Singapore
Company :
President, Singapore National Academy of Science
Speaker Info :
Speaker at Roundtable C: RSIS
Professor Andrew Wee is Vice President (University and Global Relations) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was previously Dean of the NUS Faculty of Science from 2007-2014. He is a Provost's Chair of Physics and Director of the Surface Science Laboratory.
Prof Wee's research interests include nuclear energy education and surface and nanoscale science. He was involved in the 2015 NUS public education and outreach seminar on nuclear issues and studies in Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics UK, the Institute of Physics Singapore, and the Singapore National Academy of Science where he is currently serves as President. He is an Associate Editor of the journal ACS Nano, and serves on several journal editorial boards.
Prof Wee was a Rhodes Scholar (1987) at the University of Oxford, where he received his DPhil. He holds a BA and MA in Physics from the University of Cambridge.
