Background Information: 

Run-Wei Li, Chair Professor at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (tentative name), PhD supervisor, recipient of the State Council Special Government Allowance and National Outstanding Youth Fund and Zhejiang Province Special Expert. 

After obtaining his Ph.D. from Institute of Physics (IOP), CAS in 2002, Prof. Li served as the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) research fellow in Osaka University, Japan (2002-2003); Humboldt Fellow in Kaiserslautern University, Germany (2003-2005); Senior Research Fellow in the International Center for Young Scientists, National Institute for Materials Sciences, Japan (2005-2008); Professor in Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), CAS, China since 2008; In 2025, he joined Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, as a Chair Professor and Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering.

His research focuses on information-functional materials and devices. He has published over 300 SCI papers in journals such as Science, Science Robotics, PNAS, and Advanced Materials, with more than 16,000 citations. He has edited two monographs and contributed to three others. He has applied for more than 300 patents, with over 180 granted, and 10 patents have been transferred and commercialized. As the first author, he has received numerous awards, including the First Prize in Natural Science of Zhejiang Province, the First Prize in Technological Progress of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo City Special Award for Technological Innovation, and two First Prizes in Technological Progress of Ningbo City.

Research Field:

Flexible/elastic functional materials and devices, including: the design and preparation of flexible/elastic functional materials, research on flexible/elastic magnetoelectric sensitive materials and sensing technologies, as well as research on intelligent bionic materials and multifunctional integrated devices.

Educational Background:

1993.09-1997.07: B.S. degree, Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, China 

1997.09-2002.07: M.S. and Ph.D. degree, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Work Experience:

2002.08-2003.09: JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) research fellow, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University. Osaka, Japan.

2003.10-2005.01: AvH (Alexander von Humboldt) research fellow, Department of Physics, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

2005.02-2008.03: ICYS (International Center for Young Scientists) research fellow, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan.

2008.03-2025.02: Professor, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

2025.03-: Chair Professor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (tentative name), China

Academic Part-time Jobs (Partial):

2013–Present: Vice Chair, Applied Magnetism Branch, Chinese Institute of Electronics

2014–Present: Senior Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

2014–Present: Member, Asia Union of Magnetism Societies (AUMS)

2015–Present: Vice President, Zhejiang Materials Research Society

2018–Present: Vice Chair, Magnetism Professional Committee, Chinese Physical Society

2022–Present: Director, Chinese Materials Research Society

2024–Present: Member, Aerospace Information Branch, Chinese Institute of Electronics

2025–Present: Technical Committee Member of the IEEE Magnetics Society (IEEE MagSoc).

Currently serving as an editorial board member for Review of Materials Research, Sensors, Spin, Smart Materials and Devices, Journal of Semiconductors, and guest editor for npj Spintronics

Awards and Honors:

2012: AUMS Young Researcher AWARD

2014: National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Talents

2015: Outstanding Young Investigator Award

2016: Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions of Zhejiang Province

2017: Chinese Institute of Electronics “Fellow”

2018: Super Experts in Zhejiang Province; Scientific and Technological Progress of Ningbo City (First Prize)

2021: Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Award (First Prize); Outstanding Talent, Ningbo City 

2022: Ningbo City Science and Technology Award (First Prize); Ningbo City Patent Innovation Competition (First Prize) 

2023: Zhejiang Provincial Intellectual Property Award (First Prize); Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize)  

2024: Ningbo City Special Award for Technological Innovation; State Council Special Government Allowance

Representative Works:

General Information

Prof. Li developed elastic magnetic thin films, elastic ferroelectric materials, elastic conductors and electrode materials, elastic stress-strain sensors, elastic magnetosensitive sensors, tactile sensors, and high-density multifunctional information storage devices, and published over 300 SCI papers in journals such as Science, Sci. Robot., Adv. Mater., PNAS, and JACS; served as the chief editor for two monographs and co-authored three monographs;. applied for over 300 patents, with more than 180 granted, and 10 patents have been transferred and commercialized. The elastic stress-strain sensors and their array technology have demonstrated applications in smart health and human-machine interaction fields.

Works Information and Citation Data

Google Scholar：

https://scholar.google.hk/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=WLIDXugAAAAJ

Web of Knowledge：

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/53984030

Published works

1.Run-Wei Li, Gang Liu etc, Flexible electronic materials and devices (in Chinese), Beijing: Science Press, 2019

2.Run-Wei Li, Gang Liu etc, Flexible and Stretchable Electronics: Materials, Designs, and Devices, Singapore: Jenny Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd, 2019

10 Representative Works (* refers to the corresponding author)

1. Linping Wang, Run-Wei Li*, A more biofriendly piezoelectric material. Science 383, 1416 (2024)

2. Huali Yang, Shengbin Li, Yuanzhao Wu*, Xilai Bao, Ziyin Xiang, Yali Xie, Lili Pan, Jinxia Chen, Yiwei Liu*, Run-Wei Li*, Advances in Flexible Magnetosensitive Materials and Devices for Wearable Electronics, Advanced Materials, e2311996 (2024)

3. Xuerong Liu, Cui Sun, Xiaoyu Ye, Xiaojian Zhu*, Cong Hu, Hongwei Tan*, Shang He, Mengjie Shao, Run-Wei Li*, Neuromorphic nanoionics for human-machine interaction: from materials to applications, Advanced Materials, e2311472 (2024)

4. Liang Gao, Ben-Lin Hu*, Linping Wang, Jinwei Cao, Ri He, Fengyuan Zhang, Zhiming Wang, Wuhong Xue, Huali Yang, Run-Wei Li*. Intrinsically elastic polymer ferroelectric by precise slightcross-linking. Science 381, 6657 (2023)

5. Jinwei Cao, Fei Liang, Huayang Li, Xin Li, Youjun Fan, Chao Hu, Jing Yu, Jin Xu, Yiming Yin, Fali Li, Dan Xu, Hanfang Feng, Huali Yang, Yiwei Liu, Xiaodong Chen, Guang Zhu, Run-Wei Li*. Ultra-robust stretchable electrode for e-skin: In situ assembly using a nanofiber scaffoldand liquid metal to mimic water-to-net interaction. InfoMat. 4:e12302 (2022)

6. Shuang Gao, Xiaohui Yi, Jie Shang, Gang Liu, Run-Wei Li*. Organic and Hybrid Resistive Switching Materials and Devices. Chemical Society Reviews. 6(48), 1531-1565 (2019)

7. Yuanzhao Wu, Yiwei Liu, Youlin Zhou, Qikui Man, Chao Hu, Waqas Asghar, Fali Li, Zhe Yu, Jie Shang, Gang Liu, Meiyong Liao, Run-Wei Li*. A Skin-Inspired Tactile Sensor for Smart Prosthetics. Science Robotics. 3, eaat0429 (2018)

8. Hongwei Tan, Gang Liu, XiaojianZhu, Huali Yang, Bin Chen, Xinxin Chen, Jie Shang, Wei D. Lu, Yihong Wu,Run-Wei Li*. An Optoelectronic Resistive Switching Memory with IntegratedDemodulating and Arithmetic Functions. Advanced Materials. 17(27), 2797 (2015)

9. Xiaojian Zhu, Wenjing Su, Yiwei Liu, Benlin Hu, Liang Pan, Wei Lu, Jiandi Zhang, Run-Wei Li*. Observation of Conductance Quantization in Oxide-Based Resistive Switching Memory. Advanced Materials. 29(24), 3941-3946 (2012)

10. Run-Wei Li, Huabing Wang, Xuewen Wang, X. Z. Yu, Y. Matsui, Zhao-Hua Cheng, Bao-Gen Shen, E. Ward Plummer, Jiandi Zhang. Anomalously Large Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in a Perovskite Manganite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 34(106), 14224-14229 (2009)