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Yi Li is now Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He studied for his PhD with Professor Manfred Hesse at the University of Zurich, investigating the synthesis of polyamine alkaloids. He then held Postdoctoral Fellowships with Professor Tony Barrett at Imperial College, London, and Professor Karl Hale, at University College London and Queen's University, Belfast. In 2008, Yi Li joined Professor Gerry Pattenden at the University of Nottingham to study the biomimetic synthesis of complex polycyclic diterpenes found in corals. He was first appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in 2011 and promoted to the current position in 2015. Yi Li's research interests have been in the development of strategies for organic synthesis and total synthesis of biologically active natural products.