Quan Li is Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Institute of Advanced Materials at Southeast University. He is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of "Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays", the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wiley "Responsive Materials", an Editor of Springer Nature "Light: Science & Applications" etc. He held appointments in USA, Germany, and France. Li received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, where he was promoted to a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry in February 1998. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His current research interest spans from stimuli-responsive smart soft matter, advanced photonics, and optoelectronic materials for energy harvesting and energy saving to functional biocompatible materials and nanoparticles to nanoengineering and device fabrication.