Gordon Yee

Gordon Yee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech, affiliated with the College of Science. His research focuses on designing organic-based permanent magnets using Earth-abundant transition metals, particularly exploring systematic tunability through fluorine substitution in molecular frameworks.

Education: B.S. Chemistry (UC Berkeley, 1983), Ph.D. Physical Chemistry (Stanford, 1990), Postdoctoral Research at DuPont (1991). He has collaborated with researchers at Georgetown, Vanderbilt, and other institutions using SQUID magnetometry to study magnetic properties of novel compounds.

Research interests include molecular magnetism, transition metal complexes, and materials science. Notable achievements include co-discovering the first room-temperature molecule-based ferromagnet (1991) and developing vanadium-based ferrimagnetic networks.

• Awards: Alumni Excellence in Teaching (2017), Outstanding Advising (2017), Shannon Teaching Award (2016), and multiple teaching excellence recognitions.
• Grants/Labs: Active in materials synthesis and characterization, with focus on ligand design and structural-property correlations.
• Future Work: Continuing exploration of organic/inorganic hybrid magnets and tunable magnetic materials.