Can Li

Can Li received his Ph.D. in the Physical Chemistry of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1989 and became Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1993. He was a post.-doctoral Fellow at Northwestern University from 1994-1996 and a visiting Professor at The University of Liverpool in 1999 at The University of Tokyo in 2000, at Lehigh University in 2002 and an Invited Professor at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in 2003. Can Li serves on the editorial boards of "Applied Catalysis A", "J. Mol. Catal. A", "Catalysis Surveys from Asia" and about nine other Chinese journals. Can Li has received numerous awards including the "National Outstanding Young Scientist Award" and "Hong Kong Qiu-Shi Young Scientist Award". Can Li is working on both fundamental and applied catalysis, and training the graduate students and post-docs to be the skilled experts in the catalysis and related fields. He tries to understand catalysis at the atomic, molecular as well as the nanometer scale, to understand the reaction mechanism from the study on adsorption, desorption, surface intermediates and time-resolved dynamics of the reactions; and to reveal the essential relationship between catalytic performance and the catalyst structure and composition, by using physico-chemical techniques, particularly in-situ vibrational and optical spectroscopies. Based on the understanding of the fundamental principles of catalysis, Can Li is applying them in the designing and developing of more selective and active catalysts for practical applications in environmental protection, energy conversion, fine chemicals production and preparation of materials.