Professor and ARC Future Fellow 2011- Associate Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW 2009-2011 Senior Lecturer, School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW, 2007-2009 Lecturer, School of Materials Science & Engineering, UNSW 2004-2007 Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), 1998-2004

Professor Sean Li is currently leading a research group, which consists of more than 40 researchers including 3 academics, 4 research fellows and 36 postgraduate students to work in the research areas of advanced multifunctional materials at UNSW. Their research activities were/are funded by ~$20m from Australian Research Council, Australian Renewable Energy Agency, ANSTO, CSIRO and Industries etc, since 2005. Professor Sen Li's laboratory is equipped with a number of world-class research facilities, which are specially designed and fully geared towards the development of advanced multifunctional and energy materials with a total value of $8m. It is one of the key research infrastructures in the University. Professor Sean Li has published 2 textbooks, 1 edited book, 8 book chapters and more than 275 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He received the Global Star Award from American Ceramic Society in 2013.

K. Liao and S. Li, “Interfacial Characteristics of Carbon Nanotube-Polystyrene Composite System”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79 (25), 4225 (2001). C.Q. Sun, Y. Wang, B. K. Tay, S. Li, H. Huang, Y. B. Zhang, “Correlation Between the Melting Point of a Nanosolid and the Cohesive Energy of a Surface Atom”, J. Phys. Chem. B 106 (41), 10701 (2002). S. Li, Z.L. Dong, K. Maung Latt, H.S. Park and T. White, “Formation of Cu Diffusion Channels in Ta layer of Cu/Ta/SiO2/Si Structure”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 2296 (2002). S. Li, T. White, K. Laursen, T.T. Tan, C.Q. Sun, Z.L. Dong, Y. Li, S.H. Zhou, J. Horvat and S.X. Dou, “Intense vortex pinning enhanced by semi-crystalline defect traps in self-aligned nanostructured MgB2”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 314 (2003). S. Li, T. White, C.Q. Sun, Y.Q. Fu, J. Plevert and K. Lauren, “Discriminating Lattice Structural Effects from Electronic Contributions to the Superconductivity of Doped MgB2 with Nanotechnology”, J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 16415 (2004). S. Li, Z.W. Li, Y.Y. Tay, J. Armellin and W. Gao, “Growth Mechanism and Photonic Behaviours of Nanoporous ZnO Microcheerios”, Crystal Growth and Design 8(5), 1623 (2008).