Xiaosong Li earned a B.S. Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Wayne State University in 2003. Following a post-doctoral training at the Yale University, he joined the University of Washington as Assistant Professor in the fall of 2005. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and to Full Professor in 2015. Currently, he is the Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professor and Associate Chair of Chemistry at the University of Washington, Lab Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Lab, and Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He has received awards that include the Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award. His research focuses on developing and applying time-dependent relativistic and non-relativistic electronic structure theories for studying excited state chemical processes that underpin energy conversion, photocatalysis, and ultrafast spectroscopies.

HONORS AND AWARDS
2019 Finalists, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington
2018 Zhang Dayu Young Investigator Lectureship, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
2017 Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry
2017 University of Washington Department of Chemistry Faculty Lectureship
2017 University of Washington Commute Champion
2012 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry, American Chemical
Society
2011 Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2011 Phi Lambda Upsilon Faculty Mentor Award
2009 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Development of time-dependent electronic structure theory;
• Development of relativistic many-body theories;
• Development of nonadiabatic electronic dynamics and Ehrenfest molecular dynamics;
• Development of first-principles methods for excited state calculations;
• Development of efficient algorithms for geometry optimization and linear scaling self-
consistent field and efficient molecular dynamics for large systems;
• Computational/theoretical studies of chemical processes, and
structural/optical/electric/magnetic properties of organic photovoltaics, diluted magnetic
semiconductors, materials defects and surfaces.