Professor Lee has been Co-Director of the Institute of Security Science and Technology (ISST), Chair in Ceramic Science and Engineering, and President of the American Ceramic Society. Previous positions at Imperial include 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 is a member of the Government advisory committee The Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board (NIRAB), 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.

Stepan N. Kalmykov has been Head of Radiochemistry Department and Deputy Dean of Faculty of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University. He has been known as an expert in radiochemistry and especially in environmental chemistry of actinides and fission products, radionuclide speciation, rare and radioactive metals separation and radiopharmaceutical chemistry. Stepan Kalmykov is the member of the advisory committee of "Radiochimica Acta”. He has published more than 120 research papers and several monographs, including "Actinide nanoparticle research”. Springer. 2011, 440 p. ISBN 978-3-642-11431-1. Stepan Kalmykov was an invited lecturer at several large international conferences including "Actinides” and "Migration