ABOUT ME

Professional Experience

• Director, Materials and Manufacturing Futures Institute 2018 - 
• Professor 2012 -
• 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

RESEARCH

Research Contribution

Professor Sean Li has made extensive and significant scientific contributions in the field of electroceramics and addressed many problems that challenged the research community for many years. His real-world research has closed the gaps between fundamental scientific research and industry applications to solve real-world problems. He has invented many game-changing technologies that have been licensed and implemented by industry. As an academic with expertise in electronic ceramics, Professor Li has an outstanding and unique publication record within his field. He has published his work in prestigious journals, including Nature, Science, Progress in Materials Science, Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Energy Letters, Coord. Chem. Rev., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Sci., ACS Nano, Nano Energy, JACS, and PRL. Professor Li’s laboratory is equipped with world-class research facilities with the depth and variety of these facilities establishing UNSW as a preeminent facility in the area of fabrication of advanced multifunctional materials.

TEACHING & OUTREACH

Teaching Contributions

Professor Sean Li is currently teaching MAST6001. Since 2007, there have been 70 HDRs including 35 Ph.D., 27 M.Eng. and 8 M.Sc. students who have completed their degrees under Professor Sean Li’s supervision (up to 12^th March 2023). Professor Li's HDR alumni are currently working as academics and scientists in universities or global leading companies in Australia, USA, Japan, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Singapore, Hong Kong and China etc.  

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

AWARDS & MEMBERSHIPS

• 2016  - UNSW - Innovation of the Year Award 
• 2016  - Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia Award - Best Commercial Innovation
• 2013 - Global Star Award, American Ceramic Society 
• 2006 - Vice-Chancellors Teaching and Research Award 
• 2004 - Excellence in Teaching Award 2004, Nanyang Technological University Singapore