Professor W.E. Lee

Professor Bill Lee is a Sêr Cymru professor of materials in nuclear energy and extreme environments at the Nuclear Futures Institute Bangor University, UK. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Materials and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Security Science and technology (ISST) where he was previously Co-Director from 2017-2020. He had previously been Chair in Ceramic Science and Engineering in the Department as well as Director of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering, Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy (with Cambridge and The Open Universities), and Director of the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics. He was President of the American Ceramic Society 2016/17 and a member of the Government advisory committee The Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board (NIRAB) from 2014-17, the Leverhulme Trust Panel of Advisors, the Royal Academy of Engineering International Activities Committee, and the Scientific and Environmental Advisory Board Tokamak Energy Ltd. He was from Jan 2006 to Sept 2010 Head of the Department of Materials. Bill was Deputy Chair of the Government advisory Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) from 2007-2013, has acted as special advisor nuclear to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee (2013) and is an IAEA Technical Expert. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, IOMMM, ACerS and the City and Guilds Institute and a Freeman of the Armourers and Brasiers livery company.