Zhibo Li

Biography

Zhibo Li obtained his B.S. (1998) and Master (2001) degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He then obtained his Ph.D. working on self-assembly of triblock copolymer in the Chemistry Department, University of Minnesota 2006. He then spent two and half years at UCLA as a postdoctoral scholar.

In 2009, he became a professor in the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and moved to the Qingdao University of Science and Technology in 2015. In 2025 Zhibo moved to a new role in the College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University. He was winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2012), and became the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2018).

His research interests include design and synthesis of stimuli-responsive polypeptides, preparation of biodegradable polyesters from biobased monomers, developing organocatalysts and phosphazene  superbase for ring opening (co)polymerization of cyclic esters and epoxides, and studying the self-assembly of copolymers with multi-hydrogen bonding interactions.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Polymer Chemistry