Gang Li is a Full Professor at the National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, Soochow University, China. He is also the 15th high-level talent of “Top Six Talent Peaks” and selected talent of “Double Creative Plan" in Jiangsu province of China. He completed his MS studies in Textile Sciences and Engineering at Donghua University in 2009 and his Ph.D. studies in Textile Sciences and Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2013. He has published 93 papers with 1901 citations and an h-index of 25 (Scopus, 26 October 2023). His research topics mainly include: silk biomaterials, biomedical textiles, Calotropis gigantea fiber, biomedical materials, functional and smart textiles, materials, biomedical and textile engineering.