Dr. LEE Bora is a researcher specializing in plant ecology and environmental science. She currently serves as a Research Officer at the Mangrove Research Center, part of the Warm-Temperate and Subtropical Forest Research Center under the National Institute of Forest Science in Jeju since 2020. She is leading the only official mangrove research project supported by the Korea Forest Service. Dr. LEE earned her Ph.D. in the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 2014. She continues to build interdisciplinary collaborations across Asia to support mangrove restoration and climate adaptation research.