Prof. Yi Li is a full professor in the State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry and the deputy director of International Center of Future Science at Jilin University. His research focuses on computational chemistry and materials genomics of nanoporous functional materials. He has coauthored over 100 peer-reviewed papers in high-profile journals, such as Chem. Rev., Nat. Commun., Chem, and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., etc. He received the National Natural Science Award (Second Prize; the 4th awardee) in 2012 and the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (NSFC) in 2016. He is a member of the Structure Commission of International Zeolite Association. Currently, he is an Advisory Board member of Chemical Science and a Youth Editorial Board Member of Chinese Chemical Letters, Chemical Research in Chinese Universities, and Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities.

Education
2006  Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University
2005-2006 Department of Materials, ETH Zurich
2003 Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2001  B.S., College of Chemistry, Jilin University

Positions
2016-  Deputy Director of Center of Future Science, Jilin University
2014-  Professor, College of Chemistry, Jilin University
2009-2014  Associate Professor, College of Chemistry, Jilin University
2006-2009  Lecturer, College of Chemistry, Jilin University

Awards/Honors
2018  Jilin Youth Award of Science and Technology for Innovation Team (Team Leader)
2016  Jilin Youth Award of Science and Technology
2016  Excellent Young Scientists Fund (NSFC)
2012  National Natural Science Award (Second Prize; the 4th awardee)

Professional Service
Member of the Structure Commission of International Zeolite Association (2019-)
Advisory board member of Chemical Science (2019-)
Youth Editorial Board Member of Chemical Research in Chinese Universities / Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities (2019-)
Member of the Zeolite Committee of Chinese Chemical Society (2018-)
Council member of the Chemical Society of Jilin Province (2017-)
Youth Editorial Board Member of Chinese Chemical Letters (2017-)

Research Interest
Computational chemistry and materials genomics of nanoporous functional materials
1. Computational prediction of nanoporous crystalline structures
2. High-throughput screening of functional nanoporous materials
3. Database development for nanoporous materials
4. Investigation of structure-property relationships and reaction mechanisms of nanoporous materials via machine learning and other informatics approaches

Publications 
Full publication list:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5222-3674
publons: https://publons.com/a/1300451/ 

Selected publications:
1. Necessity of heteroatoms for realizing hypothetical aluminophosphate zeolites: a high-throughput computational approach
    Li, L.; Slater, B.; Yan, Y.; Wang, C; Li, Y.;* Yu, J. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 1411. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00136
2. Toward a new era of designed synthesis of nanoporous zeolitic materials
   Li, Y.; Cao, H.; Yu, J.* ACS Nano 2018, 12, 4096. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02625
3. Applications of zeolites in sustainable chemistry
    Li, Y.; Li, L.; Yu, J.* Chem 2017, 3, 928. DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2017.10.009
4. In silico prediction and screening of modular crystal structures via a high-throughput genomic approach
    Li, Y.; Li, X.; Liu, J.; Duan, F.; Yu, J.* Nat. Commun. 2015, 6, 8328. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9328
5. New stories of zeolite structures: their descriptions, determinations, predictions, and evaluations
    Li, Y.; Yu, J.* Chem. Rev. 2014, 114, 7268. DOI: 10.1021/cr500010r
6. Criteria for zeolite frameworks realizable for target synthesis
    Li, Y.; Yu, J.;* Xu, R. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 1673. DOI: 10.1002/anie.200705175