凯发

Prof. Li is Rennie Family Endowed Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder. He has been assistant (2000-2003), Associate (2003-2006), and Full Professor (2007-2015) at Department of Physics, National University of Singapore. He is APS fellow (2013), recipient of 2014/2015 Russell Severance Springer Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, recipient of 2005 National Science Award, Singapore, 2005 OCPA’s (International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers) Asia Achievement Award. He is founding director of Center for Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, and the founding director of Center for Computational Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore.

He is one of the pioneers in an emerging field – Phononics. He has published 266 papers including 1 Rev. Mod Physics and 30 Phys. Rev. Lett, with citations of more than 10,000. His currently research activities include: fundamental theory and measuring techniques of phonon/heat transport, nano structured thermoelectric materials, phononic thermal devices, thermal metamaterials, phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials.