Professor LI Baowen

Executive Director (NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering)

email: phylibw@nus.edu.sg  |  Ph: 6516 6864

As the Executive Director of NGS, Professor Li endeavours to promote integrative research – Ph.D. research projects and coursework programmes that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries.   NGS has strong links with relevant Faculties, Schools and Research Centers of Excellence at NUS, and the various research institutes of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore’s lead agency for research and development.  NGS has also built synergistic, complementary partnerships with a select number of world-leading overseas research institutes and knowledge organisations in the USA, the UK, Continental Europe, Japan, Australia, and China.  

In 1990, Professor Li received the Max-Planck Scholarship, and did his Ph. D thesis within two years, and got the Dr.rer.nat degree in 1992 from Universitat of Oldenburg.  He joined NUS in July 2000 as an assistant professor, and promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2003 and full professor in 2007.  He was Deputy Head of Physics Department, NUS from 2005-2006, founding executive director of Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, NUS since 2007.

An international leading expert in heat transport and co-founder of phononics, he has published more than 100 papers including 18 in Phys. Rev. Lett.  He has delivered more than 100 keynote and invited talks.  He has been awarded NUS Young Researcher Award in 2003, Temasek Young Investigator Award in 2004, National Science Award 2005, Singapore, and 2005 Oversea’s Chinese Physics Association (OCPA) Asia Achievement Award. 2007 IOP World Scientific Prize and Medal. 2008 Outstanding scientists of FOS.  He is the coordinator of nonlinear and statistical physics at OCPA, and concurrent professor at Nanjing University, guest professor at Beijing Normal University, guest professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, advisory professor at East China Normal University.

His research interests include but not limited to phononics, heat conduction in low dimensional systems, thermoelectric effect in nanostructures, complex networks and systems biology, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, inverse scattering problem, waves propagation and scattering in random/turbulent media etc.