Dr. D. M. Li received his PhD in 2015 from the City University of Hong Kong with a Postgraduate Studentship funded by the UGC of Hong Kong S.A.R. From 2011 to 2012, he worked as a Research Assistant at the City University of Hong Kong for six months. From 2018 to 2020, he was a MSCA COFUND Fellow at the Cardiff University with the supports of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions COFUND fellowship and the SÊR CYMRU II program. Dr. Li became an associate professor at the Wuhan University of Technology in 2015. His main research interests include numerical methods, computational mechanics, applied mechanics, soft matter, composites, meta materials and structures, and self-healing materials. Dr. Li's research in these fields has resulted in 40+ journal papers in the top related international journals and received a total of more than 1000 citations. One co-authored paper earned the Best Paper Award 2018 for the Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. Another paper, of which he is the corresponding author, was