Chao-Jun Li
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Chemistry and Biochemistry | L13
Prof. Chao-Jun Li is a Distinguished James McGill Chair at McGill University (Canada). He received his Ph.D. at McGill University (1992) and was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University (US). He was an Assistant (1994), Associate (1998), and Full Professor (2000) at Tulane University (US). Since 2003, he has been a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green Chemistry and E. B. Eddy Chair Professor at McGill University. He also serves as the Co-Director for Quebec’s FQRNT Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis since 2009. He was a pioneer in using water as a green solvent and a global leader in developing Green Chemistry for chemical synthesis. He was a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics (2014-2017). He received a US NSF’s CAREER Award (1997), US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2001), 2010 Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award, 2015 R. U. Lemieux Award and 2018 Alfred Bader Award of the Canadian Chemical Society, the 2020 Catalysis Award and the 2022 CIC Medal of the Chemical Institute of Canada, the 2021 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, the 2002 JSPS Senior Fellow, and the 2018 Killam Research Fellow of the Canadian Council of Arts among others. Dr. Li was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Sciences) (2012), the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2007), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2012), the Chemical Institute of Canada (2013), the American Chemical Society (ACS) (2015), the Chinese Chemical Society (2020), The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2016) and the European Academy of Sciences (2020).