Yanhui Li is a professor in the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Qingdao University. He earned his master's degree in metal materials and heat treatment from Dalian Railway Institute (now Dalian Jiaotong University) from 1996 to 1999 and his Ph.D. in materials processing engineering from Tsinghua University from 1999 to 2003. Li is a Taishan Scholar and has published over 280 academic papers, including more than 160 SCI papers in renowned international journals. His research covers adsorption, carbon nanotubes, inorganic chemistry, aqueous solutions, and carbon.