Dr. Li obtained his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Zhejiang (Hangzhou) University, China, in 1983, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 1989, under the direction of Professor David M. Lubman. After graduation, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta in July 1989. He was an Assistant Professor from 1989 to 1994 and an Associate Professor from 1994 to 1999. He has been a Full Professor since July 1999.
Dr. Li is a Canada Research Chair in Analytical Chemistry (Tier 1, 2005-2012) and has won several awards including McBryde Medal (2001) from the Canadian Society for Chemistry, Faculty of Science Outstanding Research Award (2002), McCalla Professorship (2002-2003), and Killam Annual Professorship (2004-2005) from the University of Alberta. He received the Young Explorers Prize from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR), which was given to Canada's top twenty researchers aged forty or under in science and engineering (2002) as chosen by a panel of international judges. He was the recipient of the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada (2003). He received The F.P. Lossing Award from the Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry in 2006, The Maxxam Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry in 2009 and Gerhard Herzberg Award from the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy in 2010. He is a fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada since 2001.
Dr. Li is currently an editor of Analytica Chimica Acta, an international journal on analytical chemistry with an Impact Factor of 4.31 in 2010 (2005-present). He is also a Subject Editor (Analytical Chemistry) for Scirus Topic Pages (www.scitopics.com), a free, wiki-like service for the scientific community started in July 2008 by Elsevier. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards for Current Analytical Chemistry (2004-present), Analytical Chemistry Insights (2006-present) and Clinical Proteomics (2011-present). Dr. Li was a member of the editorial advisory boards for Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (2001-2006) and Canadian Journal of Chemistry (2004-2006). He was a member of Analytical Chemistry's A-Page Advisory Panel (2006-2008).
Contact Information
Mailing address:
Professor Liang Li, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Chemistry
Centre W3-39,
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada
Office: Chemistry Centre W3-39
Office Telephone: 1-780-492-3250
Office Fax: 1-780-492-8231
E-mail: liang.li@ualberta.ca
Administrative Assistant: Ms. Christine Whelan
Office: Chemistry Centre E3-51
Office Telephone: 1-780-492-5373
E-mail: cwhelan@ualberta.ca