Lin Li (engineer)
Lin Li, FREng, CEng, FIET, FLIA, FCIRP, is professor of laser engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.Early life
Li earned his BSc in control engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 1982 and his PhD in laser engineering from Imperial College, London in 1989.Career
Li worked as a postdoctoral research associate in high power laser engineering at the University of Liverpool from 1988 to 1994. He joined UMIST in 1994, where he established the first high-power laser processing research laboratory and the associated research group. He became a full professor in 2000. He invented the microsphere super-resolution optical nanoscope with a 50 nm resolution and has 47 patents in the field of laser processing and photonic science. His current research relates to the use of graphene in welding.
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, the Laser Institute of America, the International Academy for Production Engineering, and a Chartered Engineer.
In 2017 it was announced the LIG Nanowise, a spin-off company from the University of Manchester chaired by Li, had invented new microscopy techniques that can quadruple the resolution of optical microscopes.Awards
His awards include:
