Yuzhan Li currently works as an Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing. He received his Ph.D. at Iowa State University. Then he became a researcher at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, from 2014 to 2018. He continued his postdoctoral research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2018 to 2020. He mainly engaged in the design, synthesis, and additive manufacturing technology of intelligent liquid crystal polymers and research on their actuation, shape memory, self-healing properties, etc.