Zhongrui (Jerry) Li, received Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2000. His research is in the area of advanced spectroscopy and material science with main focus on synchrotron radiation- based X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy and carbon nanotubes. He has been working on XAFS for more than 25 years and has published more than 120 articles in these fields with h-index 40 and over 6500 citations.