Our Team

Principal Investigator

Qing Li

Assistant Professor & PhD Supervisor

Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau

Dr. Qing Li is an Assistant Professor and PhD Supervisor at the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME), University of Macau. Her research focuses on advanced electrochemical energy storage, particularly aqueous zinc batteries, electrolyte engineering, interfacial chemistry, and battery materials.

She has over two years of industrial R&D experience in battery technologies, connecting fundamental research with practical applications. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers, including in Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Advanced Materials, with more than 10,000 citations and an h-index of 47.

Her projects have received support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the University of Macau, and industrial partners. She has been recognized as a Stanford World’s Top 2% Scientist.

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 2023 (HKPFS recipient)
M.Phil., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2017
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2017
B.S., Materials Chemistry, Central South University, 2014

Academic & Professional Experience

Aug 2024–present: Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau
2023–2024: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong (PDFS recipient)
2018–2019: Product Design Engineer, Sunwoda Electronics Co., Ltd.
2017–2018: Engineer, Shenzhen Qingxin Power Research Institute

Honors & Awards

2025 Stanford/Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientist
2023 Hong Kong RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship, University Grants Committee (Hong Kong)
2022 Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies Scholarship, City University of Hong Kong
2019 Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, University Grants Committee (Hong Kong)
2014 International Exchange Program Scholarship, China Scholarship Council
2012 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China