教育经历

1995-1999，中国科学技术大学，少年班，物理学，本科；

1999-2004，中国科学技术大学，化学物理系，物理化学，博士；

工作经历

2004-2006，美国马里兰大学化学与生物化学系，博士后

2006-2007，美国加州大学Irvine分校化学系，博士生； 

2007-，中国科学技术大学化学物理系，合肥微尺度物质科学国家研究中心，副教授、教授(2012)

研究兴趣

动力学过程与化学反应的微观机理

功能材料的理论设计与计算表征

分子器件的输运性质

密度泛函理论及相关数值方法

代表论文：

1. Z． Qiu, P. Li, Z. Li,* and J. Yang, “Atomistic Simulations of Graphene Growth: From Kinetics to Mechanism”, Acc. Chem. Res. 51 (2018) 728-735.

2. P. Cui, J.-H. Choi, C. Zeng, Z. Li,* J. Yang, and Z. Zhang*, “A Kinetic Pathway towards High-Density Ordered N Doping of Epitaxial Graphene on Cu(111) Using C5NCl5 Precursors”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139 (2017), 7196-7202.

3. Z． Qiu, L. Song, J. Zhao, Z. Li,* and J. Yang, “The Nanoparticle Size Effect in Graphene Cutting: A Pac-Man Mechanism”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55 (2016) 9918. 

4. P. Wu, Y. Zhang, P. Cui, Z. Li,* J. Yang, and Z. Zhang,* “Carbon Dimers as the Dominant Feeding Species in Epitaxial Growth and Morphological Phase Transition of Graphene on Different Cu Substrates”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015), 216102. 

5. S. Zhao, Z. Li,* and J. Yang* “Obtaining Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in Free Space without Resorting to Electron Doping: An Electride Based Design”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 (2014), 13313-13318.

6. P. Wu, H. Jiang, W. Zhang, Z. Li,* Z. Hou,* and J. Yang, “Lattice Mismatch Induced Nonlinear Growth of Graphene”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134 (2012), 6045-6051.

7. Z. Li,* W. Zhang, Y. Luo, J. Yang,* and J. G. Hou, “How Graphene Is Cut upon Oxidation?”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131 (2009), 6320-6321.