From 1995 to 2002, Li Zhiyuan studied at the Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, and received his bachelor’s and master’s. From 2002 to 2008, he studied at the University of Massachusetts and received his doctorate in astrophysics. Then, he moved to Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a postdoc researcher and later the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA as an assistant researcher.

In 2013, he joined the faculty of the School of Astronomy and Space Science at Nanjing University. His research interests lie in high energy astrophysical processes. So far, as a principal project leader, he has conducted or completed almost 20 multi-band observation projects using Chandra X-ray Observatory, the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM) Newton telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, Herschel Space Observatory, and the Very Large Array.

主要研究兴趣是近邻星系中各种高能天体物理过程的多波段观测

His research interests lie in the multi-band observation of various high energy astrophysical processes in nearby galaxies, including black holes and the interstellar medium at the galactic center, the interstellar medium and X-ray binaries in the Andromeda Galaxy, dwarf galaxies in the Local Group, supermassive black holes in nearby galaxies, and the hot gas in galaxy clusters.