Mr. William H. Lee
Coordinator of Scientific Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mr. William Lee is Professor of Astronomy at Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM. Dr. Lee has carried out research in high-energy astrophysics, including the physics of binary stellar systems containing compact objects, gamma-ray bursts, the production of gravitational waves, and has published more than 100 referreed papers with over 7000 citations. In 2009 he earned the Distinguished Young Scientist award at UNAM, and has worked on the development of infrastructure and instrumentation projects for Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, in collaboration with institutions in Mexico, France, Spain, Taiwan and the United States. He has been a visiting Professor at the Institute of Astronomy-University of Cambridge, Institute for Advanced Study, University of California-Santa Cruz, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, SISSA and the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre. Dr. Lee has served as Secretary for the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Director of Instituto de Astronomía at UNAM from 2010 until 2015, is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and of the International Astronomical Union, and since December 2015 he is Vice-Chancellor for Scientific Research at UNAM.