Dr. Liang Li obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Zhejiang (Hangzhou) University, China, in 1983, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 1989. After graduation, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta in July 1989. He was an Assistant Professor from 1989 to 1994 and an Associate Professor from 1994 to 1999. He has been a Full Professor since July 1999. He has been an Adjunct Professor of the Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, since January 2008. He holds a Visiting Professorship at Zhejiang University supported by K. P. Chao’s Hi-Tech Foundation for Scholars and Scientists since 2006. He is a co-PI of The Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC) mainly supported by Genome Canada. He was a co-PI of the Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) Project; his laboratory generated the HMDB MS/MS spectral library of the endogenous human metabolites widely used by the metabolomics community for unknown metabolite identification based on spectral matches. Dr. Li was a visiting scientist at Hewlett Packard Research Lab (now Agilent) from July 1998 to June 1999. He was Director of the Alberta Cancer Board Proteomics Resource Lab from February 2000 to December 2005. He also served as Chair of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Chemistry Department from July 2007 to June 2019. He has served as a Co-Director of TMIC since July 2019.