About Guoqiang Li’s work
Guoqiang Li held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from February to March 1999 and from December 1999 to February 2000. At the time, Li was based at Tongji University.
Biography
Li Guoqiang received a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Tianjin University in 1982, a Master's degree in Engineering from Chongqing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture in 1985, and a Doctorate degree from Tongji University in 1988. Li served various positions at Tongji University, incluging Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Construction Engineering, Vice President from 1999 to 2008, and Director of the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education of the Ministry of Education. In 2018, he was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium. Li's research interests include multi-storey steel structures, seismic resistance of steel structures, and fire resistance of steel structures. It has created a steel structure fire safety guarantee technology system, broken through the restrictions of China's foreign steel-concrete hybrid structures for use in earthquake zones, and developed a series of large-load energy-dissipating and shock-absorbing steel components, which have been used in the construction of key projects such as the permanent venus of Shanghai World Expo, Beijing Olympic stadium, Hongqiao transportation hub, Pudong Airport, China Expo Center, COMAC large aircraft assembly plant, Shanghai Tower and so on.