Ju Li

Ju Li has held faculty positions at the Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and is presently a chaired professor at MIT.  His group investigates the mechanical, electrochemical and transport behaviors of materials as well as novel means of energy storage and conversion.  Ju is a recipient of the 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the 2006 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, and the TR35 award from Technological Review. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014, a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2017 and a Fellow of AAAS in 2020. Li is the chief organizer of MIT A+B Applied Energy Symposia (explore) that aim to develop solutions to global climate change challenges with “A-Action before 2040” and “B-Beyond 2040” technologies.

• Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (2022)
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020)
• MIT Committed to Caring Award (2018)
• Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers (2018-2024)
• Fellow of the Materials Research Society (2017)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (2014)
• TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award (2009), for “a young person in the broad fields of metallurgy and materials science for exceptional promise of a successful career”
• Technology Review TR35 award, for 35 “world’s top innovators” under age 35 (2007)
• Materials Research Society (MRS) 2006 Outstanding Young Investigator Award, “to recognize outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work in materials research by a young scientist or engineer”
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) 2005, “the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers”