Dean, Faculty of Construction and Environment 
Director, Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development
Director, Otto Poon Research Institute for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
Ko Jan Ming Professor in Sustainable Urban Development
Chair Professor, Environmental Science and Technology
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong

Prof. Li obtained his PhD from Imperial College London. His major research interests include regional environmental pollution, urban environment and health, and sustainable urban development. Prof. Li has published more than 250 papers, mostly in leading international journals. He won the Clair C. Patterson Award (Innovative Breakthrough in Environmental Biogeochemistry) from the Geochemical Society in 2022. He was elected as Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering, and Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.

His current research topics consist of the emissions, transport and environmental fate of metal and organic pollutants, and the environmental loadings and implications of emerging pharmaceutical related contaminants in surface environments. He is the Deputy Editor of ACS Environmental Au and Associate Editor of Environmental Science and Technology. He received PolyU’s President’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities in 2023.