[Seminar] Responsive Materials: An Overview of Our Recent Research by Prof. Quan Li

Quan Li is Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Institute of Advanced Materials at Southeast University, China. He is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of "Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays", the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wiley "Responsive Materials", an editor of Springer Nature “Light: Science & Applications” etc. Li held appointments in USA, Germany, and France. He received his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, where he was promoted to the youngest Full Professor in February 1998. Li was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany. He has won Kent State University Outstanding Research and Scholarship award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He has been elected as a member of European Academy of Sciences and a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has also been honored as Professor and Chair Professor at ten universities. In the past decade, he has edited eight books (2 Wiley-VCH, 2 Wiley, and 4 Springer books), and has co-authored 40 chapters including the invited author of the entry entitled “Liquid Crystals” in the prestigious Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia. Li’s current research interest spans from stimuli-responsive smart soft matter, advanced photonics, and optoelectronic materials for energy harvesting and energy saving to functional nanoparticles, biomedical materials, and theranostic agents to nanoengineering and device fabrication.