Hian Kee Lee is with the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, and currently holds the Provost’s Term Chair Professorship. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. Professor Lee’s B.Sc. (Honours) and Ph.D. degrees are from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research interests are in sample preparation, separation science and environmental analytics, specifically, the development and application of solvent-minimized microextraction procedures. Professor Lee is currently an editor of the Journal of Chromatography A, and was an editor of Analytica Chimica Acta (2005-2011). He has also served as an editorial advisory board member of the Journal of Chromatography A (2003-2010), an editorial advisor for Analytica Chimica Acta (2003-2005), and an international advisory board member of the Analyst (1997-2008). He received the university’s Outstanding Researcher Award in 2006, the Faculty of Science Outstanding Scientist Award in 2009, and the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies Foundation Award in 2009.