Dr Jonathan Lee is a Research Assistant Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Medicine. A homegrown Environmental Engineer from NUS by training, he has more than a decade of experience in research in solid waste management techniques, with an emphasis on comparing the efficacy and environmental impacts of multifarious novel technologies, gained through the Energy and Environmental Sustainability Solutions for Megacities CREATE project (2013-2024) funded by the National Research Foundation of Singapore, prior to joining CoSM.

With a background in Psychology as well as Biomedical Science, he is interested in improving the adoption of sustainable practices in Medicine by the application of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessments, allowing all relevant stakeholders to embrace decision-making processes that both improve patient outcomes as well as mitigate the environmental impacts of treatment processes that will help end the vicious cycle of the burdens that climate change contributes to human health. The primary focus on the work at CoSM will involve Healthcare Life Cycle Assessments with a focus on carbon footprinting, and the use of AI to enhance the ease of obtaining Inventory Data for LCAs. He has been an invited guest lecturer for undergraduate and postgraduate modules both locally and overseas, and has also taught in a Singapore MOE School.