China’s young talent scheme lures smart materials scientist Li Yongxi from US
Nanjing University website says Li has taken a position as an associate professor at its Suzhou campus
According to an April 28 post on NJU’s social media account, Li joined the university’s Institute of Functional Materials and Intelligent Manufacturing as an associate professor at its Suzhou campus.
Although his personal page at NJU does not specify when he returned to China, Li is likely to have joined the university in the past few months. He was still in Michingan in January, when his study on organic solar cells was accepted by an academic journal.
Li’s research interests mainly centre on the design and fabrication of organic electronics for a variety of applications. At NJU, his lab will focus on transparent photovoltaic technologies and the development of flexible, wearable medical devices, according to the webpage.
For example, by exploiting the flexible nature of organic semiconductor materials, his team hopes to develop an ultra-thin cardiac monitoring device that can be attached to the skin, addressing the headache of bulky traditional medical instruments, it said.
Li was admitted to Shanghai’s East China University of Science and Technology in 2005, working his way through undergraduate studies to earn his PhD in 2014. In between, he also trained at the University of Washington from 2011 to 2013 through a joint training programme.