After receiving his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in pharmaceutical science from Peking University, Li Yongxin joined the research group of Prof. QIAN Pei-Yuan at HKUST for his doctoral studies and obtained his PhD in Biology in summer 2014. He spent a short period (March-Sep 2013) in Prof. Bradley Moore’s lab of University of California at San Diego to interrogate biosynthesis of natural products. In August 2014, he joined IAS as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Dr. Li has authored and co-authored 12 scientific papers. His current research interest includes: (1) natural product chemistry: focused on discovery of novel bioactive natural products from marine bacteria; (2) natural product biosynthesis: focused on genome mining, heterologous expression and biosynthesis study of microbial natural products.

Dr. Li worked with Prof. Qian Pei-Yuan, Division of Life Science.