Xiang Li is a professor at Central South Hospital of Wuhan University, a part-time Pi at Wuhan University Medical Research Institute, and a doctoral supervisor. He graduated from York University in Canada with a bachelor's degree and then obtained a master's degree and a doctoral degree from the University of Queensland in Australia. In 2015, he received postdoctoral research at the University of California at Irvine and the Queensland Institute of brain neurology in Australia. In 2019, he won the mark rower award issued by the Australian Society of neurobiology and was selected into the Hundred Talents Program of Hubei Province in the same year.