Yanguang Li is a Professor in the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) at Soochow University, China. He received his BS in Chemistry from Fudan University, China in 2005; and obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Ohio State University in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Yiying Wu. He then moved to the Stanford University and completed the post-doctoral training under the supervision of Prof. Hongjie Dai before taking the current faculty position in 2013. His research focuses on nanostructured functional materials for energy applications, particularly in the realm of electrocatalysis and advanced batteries. At present, he has coauthors >80 peer-reviewed papers, and received a total citations of >18000 times.