Lee serves as Special Assistant to the Provost at the University of Louisville, where he's focused on exploring, developing, and implementing programs designed to help students find their success here and beyond. He has served on the Executive Board of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), is a past Chair of CUR’s Geosciences Division, and is a past President of the Carolina Geological Society. 

Lee earned the B.S. and M.S. in Geology from UNC Wilmington, and after a brief teaching interlude at Western State Colorado University, he attended the University of Iowa to earn the Ph.D. in Geoscience in 2004.  Lee studied with Robert Brenner, Luis Gonzales, Greg Ludvigson, Brian Witzke, Art Bettis and Jeff Doral while at Iowa.

He holds memberships in the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Carolina Geological Society, Council on Undergraduate Research, and the Geological Society of America.