• First-principles investigation of the electronic, optical and transport properties of 2D semiconductors and heterostructures.
• CVD-growth of 2D semiconductors and heterostructures.

•  Lecturer in Xi’an Jiaotong University.  Since Oct 2016
•  Post-doctoral Fellow in Xi’an Jiaotong University  Since Oct 2016

• PhD. in Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Jul 2016
• B.S. in Electronics Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaan Xi, China, Jul 2011

•  Dean Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, 2016
•  National scholarship for graduate student, 2015

1.   Yan Li, Zhongming Wei and Jingbo Li, “Modulation of the Electronic Properties of Phosphorene by Wrinkle and Vertical Electric Field,” Appl. Phys. Lett.107, 112103 (2015). 

2.   Yan Li, Hui Chen, Le Huang and Jingbo Li, “Ab Initio Study of the Dielectric and Electronic Properties of Multilayer GaS Films,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 1059, (2015). 

3.   Yan Li, Shengxue Yang and Jingbo Li, “Modulation of the Electronic Properties of Ultrathin Black Phosphorus by Strain and Electrical Field,” J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 23970 (2014).

4.   Yan Li, Jun Kang and Jingbo Li, “Indirect-to-Direct Band Gap Transition of the ZrS2 Monolayer by Strain: First-Principles Calculations,” RSC Adv. 4, 7396 (2014). 

5.   Yan Li, Sefaattin Tongay, Qu Yue, Jun Kang, Junqiao Wu, Jingbo Li, “Metal to Semiconductor Transition in Metallic Transition Metal Dichalcogenides,” J. Appl. Phys. 114, 174307 (2013). 

6.   Yan Li, Qu Yue, “First-Principles Study of Electronic and Magnetic Properties of FeCl3-based Graphite Intercalation Compounds,” Physica B, 425, 72 (2013). 

7.  Chao Fan‡,  Yan Li*, Fangyuan Lu, Hui-Xiong Deng, Zhongming Wei and Jingbo Li, “Wavelength Dependent UV-Vis Photodetectors of SnS2 Flakes” RSC Adv.6, 422 (2016)

8.  Hui Chen,  Yan Li*, Le Huang and Jingbo Li, “Intrinsic Defects in Gallium Sulfide Monolayer: a First-Principles Study,” RSC Adv. 5, 50883 (2015). 

9.  Hui Chen,  Yan Li*, Le Huang and Jingbo Li, Qu “Influential Electronic and Manetic properties of the Gallium Sulfide Monolayer by Substitutional Doping ”, J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 29148 (2015).

10.  S. X. Yang,  Yan Li, X. Z. Wang, N. J. Huo, J. B. Xia, S. S. Li, Jingbo Li, “High performance few-layer GaS photodetector and its unique photo-response in different gas environments”, Nanoscale, 6, 2582 (2014). 

11.  N. J. Huo,  Yan Li, J. Kang, R. Li, Q. Xia, J. Li, “Edge-states ferromagnetism of WS2 nanosheets”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 104, 202406 (2014). 

12.  Le Huang,  Yan Li, Zhongming Wei and Jingbo Li, “Strain induced piezoelectric effect in black phosphorus and MoS2 van der Waals heterostructures” Sci. Rep., 5,16448 (2015).