Education and Work Experiences:

2018-Present, Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics 

2017-Present, Group leader of Mocro/Nano Photoelectric Materials and Photocatalysis Research Group in Dalian National Laboratory for Clear Energy 

2019-2020, Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology (Supervisor: Prof. Harry Atwater) 

2014-2018, Associate professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics 

2011-2011, Research Associate, the University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Prof. Kazunari Domen) 

2009-2014, PhD degree, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (Supervisor: Prof. Can Li) 

2005-2009, Bachelor’s degree, Xiamen University

Research Interests:

Charge separation strategy and mechanism in photocatalytic water splitting; 

Novel semiconductor materials for solar energy conversion; 

Scalable photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production.

Awards and Honor:

Zhang Dayu Youth scholar by DICP (2018) 

Young Scientist Prize of International Congress on Catalysis (2016) 

Rising Star of Catalysis in China (2017) 

Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS (2016) 

Outstanding Thesis Awards of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015) 

Special Award of Natural Science Academic Achievement in Liaoning Province (2013)

Recent International Conferences:

1. International Conference on Photocatalysis and Photoenergy, 2019, Korea. (invited lecture) 

2. Faraday Discussion Meeting on Artificial Photosynthesis, Japan, 2017. (invited lecture) 

3. The 8th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT8), 2018, Japan. Invited oral presentation.

Representative Publications:

(1) Yue Zhao, Chunmei Ding, Jian Zhu, Wei Qin, Xiaoping Tao, Fengtao Fan, Rengui Li*, Can Li*. A Hydrogen Farm Strategy for Scalable Solar Hydrogen Production with Particulate Photocatalysts. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 10.1002/anie.202001438. 

(2) Zheng Li, Liang Zhang, Yong Liu, Chenyi Shao, Yuying Gao, Fengtao Fan, Junxi Wang, Jinmin Li, Janchang Yan*, Rengui Li*, Can Li*. Surface polarity-induced spatial charge separation boosting photocatalytic overall water splitting on GaN nanorod arrays. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 935-942. 

(3) Ming Shi, Guanna Li, Jianming Li, Xu Jin, Xiaoping Tao, Bin Zeng, Evgeny A Pidko, Rengui Li*, Can Li*, Intrinsic Facet-dependent Reactivity of Well‐defined BiOBr Nanosheets on Photocatalytic Water Splitting. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 10.1002/anie.201916510. 

(4) Linchao Mu, Yue Zhao, Ailong Li, Shengyang Wang, Zhiliang Wang, Jingxiu Yang, Yi Wang, Taifeng Liu, Ruotian Chen, Jian Zhu, Fengtao Fan, Rengui Li* and Can Li*. Enhancing charge separation on high symmetry SrTiO3 exposed with anisotropic facets for photocatalytic water splitting. Energy Environ. Sci., 2016, 9, 2463-2469. 

(5) Rengui Li, Fuxiang Zhang, Donge Wang, Jingxiu Yang, Mingrun Li, Jian Zhu, Xin Zhou, Hongxian Han and Can Li. Spatial Separation of Photogenerated Electrons and Holes among {010} and {110} Crystal Facets of BiVO4. Nature Commun., 2013, 4:1432.