Li Shutang is an academician of China Academy of Sciences and the Third World Academy of Sciences. An internationally renowned scientist in the field of materials science and technology. Dean of Institute of Nanoscience and Technology (CNST) of Soochow University, Dean of Institute of Functional Nanometer and Soft Matter (FUNSOM) of Soochow University, concurrently visiting researcher of Institute of Physical and Chemical Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and director of Nano-organic Optoelectronic Laboratory. He used to be Professor of Physics and Materials Science Department of City University of Hong Kong, Director of COSDAF, Senior Research Fellow and Project Director of Kodak Company of the United States. He has served as consultant professor of Fudan University, honorary professor of Shandong University and Central South University of Technology, adjunct professor of Institute of Physics and Chemistry of China Academy of Sciences, visiting researcher of Institute of Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Changchun Institute of Optics and Mechanics, and visiting professor of Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Jilin University, Zhejiang University and Dalian University of Technology.

Academician Li Shutang has long been engaged in the research of organic photoelectric materials and display devices, nano-functional materials and devices, diamonds and related superhard films. He has made outstanding achievements in these fields and achieved a series of innovative research results. The main research achievements "Nucleation and growth of diamond and new carbon-based materials" and "Oxide-assisted synthesis and application of one-dimensional semiconductor nanomaterials" won the Humboldt Research Award in Germany and the Qiucha Advanced Research Scholarship in Hong Kong, and won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2003 and 2005. In 2008, he won the Science and Technology Progress Award of He Liang Heli Fund. He has published more than 900 academic papers and written 9 monographs in internationally renowned journals in the fields of chemistry, physics and materials, and obtained more than 20 American patents. The paper has been cited by others for more than 26,000 times. According to the retrieval results of ESI and ISI databases, the number of citations of Academician Li's research papers in the field of materials science ranks among the highest in the world, and the H index reaches 85. Among them, 5 research papers were published in the famous journals Science (USA) and Nature (UK), and many academic papers were published in the form of cover articles. Its research achievements occupy an important position in the field of international materials science, and its academic level has been widely affirmed. It is a leader in nanotechnology and materials science in Hong Kong and the Mainland. Since 1994, he has successfully planned and presided over more than 30 large-scale research projects in Hong Kong, and won research grants of over HK$ 60 million from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the Innovation and Technology Fund. In recent years, it has also undertaken a number of national 863 and 973 projects in the Mainland.