Gang Li currently works at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Resources and Environment at the Shandong Agricultural University, a Master's degree in Resources and Environmental Sciences at the Zhejiang University, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then he continued his studies as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Delaware from 2013 to 2014. His research interests are regional environmental science, rhizosphere, soil heavy metal pollution, waste resource utilization, risk assessment, soil-plant-microorganism interaction and soil biogeochemistry.