At the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Prof. LI Jing from Rutgers University, USA, visited Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) on November 4，2010. During her stay, Prof. LI delivered a seminar report entitled “From Hybrid Semiconductors to Metal Organic Frameworks: New Materials for Clean Energy Applications” and carried out detailed discussion with the research staff of FJIRSM.

Prof. LI is now the deputy head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, deputy chief editor of Journal of Solid State Chemistry and topics editor of Crystal Growth & Design. She got her Ph. D. with the major in inorganic/theoretical chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Roald Hoffmann from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1990. She was employed as a full-time professor by Rutgers University in 1999 and a distinguished professor in 2006.

Prof. LI’s research interests and activities are primarily in the areas of solid-state inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials that possess interesting and useful properties. Up to now she has published more than 170 research papers and got 5 patents. Many of her newly published papers were cited by some well-known scientific journals such as C&EN News, Nature, Nature Materials, Materials Today, and were nominated as hot research papers. Prof. LI obtained quite a few awards for her outstanding scientific achievements, for instance, she was conferred on Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 1994, CAREER Award in 1995, Outstanding Achievement Award by the China Association for Science and Technology(CAST) in 2002. In the year of 2008, she was elected as one of the winners of Changjiang Scholars Program by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.