Joongku Lee is a Professor in the Department of Environment and Forest Resources at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, South Korea. He received Ph.D. (1998) from the Department of Biology at SungKyunKwan University, South Korea. He conducted postdoctoral work at Jepson Herbarium and Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Lee’s present research program encompasses next-generation sequencing, bioprospecting, and plant phylogeny. He has authored/co-authored 17 books and 171 publications.