Dr. Li is an Endowed Professor and Associate Dean of Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Qingdao University, China. Before joining Qingdao University, he was a Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Food Science & Nutrition, Zhejiang University. He earned his PhD in Nutrition in Australia (RMIT University, Melbourne). He is a Co-Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Associate Editor of the Journal of Nutrigenetics & Nutrigenomics, Editor of the Journal of Vegetarian Nutrition, and has also served on numerous editorial boards. He is the President of Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society (APCNS), and Immediate Past President of Asia Pacific Vegetarian Union (APVU). He is a member of China National Health Care Food Safety Committee of Experts, and a standing council member of CNS.

Dr. Li’s research integrates five nutrition-related fields: chronic diseases, nutrigenomics, nutrients bioactivity, food safety, and functional food development. First, he studies the relationship between non-communicable diseases and habitual dietary intake. Secondly, his work examines how nutrients, food ingredients and natural products influence the expression of select genes. He also investigates food bioactivity (anti-inflammation, anti-diabetes, anti-hypertension, anti-cancer, hypo-blood lipids etc) using whole foods, natural products, and functional foods through in vitro studies, animal models, and human clinical trials. The fourth area is food safety evaluation which emphasis on the long term safety of foods. The final area is the evaluation of novel food ingredients and potential natural nutrient resources through compositional and physiological studies. Dr. Li has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers. He was one of the editors for 9 monograph and he earned more than 21 patents. He has been embodied into the American Who’s Who in 2013, and awarded for his excellent work in APCNS in 2007. He also received the Annual Award for Health service workers by UK Cambridge International Biographical Centre (IBC) at 2005 and Annually Advanced Worker by Zhejiang Science and Technology Society at 2003.