About Yongdan Li’s work
Based at Tianjin University, Yongdan Li held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from March to September 1999.
Biography
Yongdan Li graduated from Hebei Institute of Chemical Technology with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering in 1982, a master’s degree in industrial catalysis from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tianjin University in 1984, and a doctorate in 1989. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Reaction Chemical Physics, National Research Center, School of Chemical Engineering, Lorraine University of Technology, South Cycy, France, and a visiting scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Twente University, the Netherlands, and the Department of Chemical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Since 1992, he has been teaching in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tianjin University since 1983 and became the Head of the department in 2002. In September 2004, he was appointed as the director of Tianjin Key Laboratory of Applied Catalysis Science and Engineering. Since 2007, he has been a professor at Aalto University in Finland.