Baowen Li - Biography#

Prof Baowen is currently Rennie Fanmily Endowed Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Physics, Colorado University Boulder, USA.

He has been 2014/2015 the Russell Severance (visiting) Springer Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. He jointed Department of Physics, National University of Singapore in 2000 as an Assistant Professor, and then promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2003, and full professor since January 2007. He has been the founding director of Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore since 2006. He has pioneered research in Phononics and actively promoted the research and international collaborations in this field. He has chaired and co-chaired more than 10 international conferences and workshops on heat transfer in nanoscale. He is founding director of Center for Phononics and Thermal Energy Science at Tongji University, Shanghai. China, and China-EU Joint Lab for Nanophononics, Tongji University, Shanghai.

The Candidate received B. Sci from Nanjing University in 1985, M. Sci from Institute of Acoustics, the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing in 1989. In 1990 he received the Max-Planck Scholarship and did his Ph. D work under Prof. Volker Mellert (then President of German Acoustics Association (DEGA) and European Acoustic Association). He received his Dr. rer. nat.. in 1992.

He served as reviewers of many leading journals including Rev. Mod. Phys, Phys. Rev. Lett, EPL, Nature Material, Nature Nanotech, Nature Comm. He is the editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Mod. Phys. Lett B, and Int J of Mod Phys B.