Education experience
2003.09 – 2009.07, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Medical School, Tsinghua University
1999.09 – 2003.07, BS, Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University
Professional Experience
2012.04 – present, successively held the positions of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2015.09 – 2016.12, Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
2010.06 – 2010.12, Research Associate, WPI Advance Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
2009.06 – 2012.04, Postdoc, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Science

1. Biomedical applications of liquid metal materials (nerve connection/repair, flexible electronics, e-skin);
2. Microfluidic and organ-on-a-chip platforms for studying environment-cell-drug interactions in biomimetic in vivo models;
3. Interdisciplinary research combining microfluidics, liquid metals, micro/nanofabrication, and tissue engineering.

[1] Xilong Zhang, Zhongshan Deng*, Xiaoling Wu, Jun Su, Zengmao Lin, Minghui Guo, Jing Liu, Lei Li*. Flexible Wireless Electrical Stimulator Based on Liquid Metal High-Density Coils for Chronic Pain Therapy. Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, e19707.
[2] Chunxue Wan, Jianye Gao, Xilong Zhang, Lei Li*, Jing Liu*, Biomimetic Liquid Metal Synapse, npj Flexible Electronics, 2025, 9, 124.
[3] Xiao Sun, Xiaohong Wang, Bingjie Wu, Qianhong Yang, Congxiao Zhu, Huimin Zhang, Qian Li, Hongru Zhou, Minghui Guo, Lin Gui*, Lei Li*. A biomimetic 3D magnetically responsive scaffold with tunable and stable compression for dynamic 3D cell culture. Science China-Materials, 2025, 68, 652.
[4] Congxiao Zhu, Zonglin Huang, Hongru Zhou, Xuefeng Han, Lei Li*, Ningbei Yin*. Purified adipose tissue-derived extracellular vesicles facilitate adipose organoid vascularization through coordinating adipogenesis and angiogenesis. Biofabrication, 2025, 17, 025014.
[5] Xilong Zhang, Zhongshan Deng*, Huize Song, Minghui Guo and Lei Li*. Liquid Metal Electromagnetic Wave Shielding and Absorbing (EWSA) Film for Solving Electromagnetic Interference in Flexible Sensor Devices. Science China-Materials, 2024, 67, 3976.
[6] Xilong Zhang, Chang Liu, Rongyu Tang, Weichen Feng, Jingru Gao, Bingjie Wu, Zhongshan Deng, Jing Liu*, Lei Li*. Liquid metal neuro-electrical interface, Soft Sci, 2024, 4, 23. (Invited review)
[7] Siyuan Zhou, Lei Li*, Enzehua Xie, Meixi Li, Jianhua Cao, Xiubin Yang*, Dayong Wu*. Small-diameter PCL/PU Vascular Graft Modified with Heparin-aspirin Compound for Preventing the Occurrence of Acute Thrombosis. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023, 249, 126058.
[8] Rongyu Tang#, Chenglin Zhang#, Bingxin Liu, Chanyuan Jiang, Lei Wang, Xuerui Zhang, Qiang Huang, Jing Liu*, Lei Li*. Towards an artificial peripheral nerve: Liquid metal-based fluidic cuff electrodes for long-term nerve stimulation and recording. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2022, 216, 114600.
[9] Qiangqiang Tang, Xiaoyu Li, Chen Lai, Lei Li*, Hongkai Wu, Yingjun Wang, Xuetao Shi*. Fabrication of a hydroxyapatite-PDMS microfluidic chip for bone-related cell culture and drug screening, Bioactive Materials, 2021, 6, 169.
[10] Lei Li#, Cheng Wang#, Yong Nie, Bo Yao, Huan Hu*. Nanofabrication Enabled Lab-on-a-Chip Technology for the Manipulation and Detection of Bacteria, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2020, 127, 115905.