Li Ning (; born July 1958) is a

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engineer specializing in hydrocarbon exploration. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and serves as deputy director of the Institute of Well-Logging and Remote Sensing, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED).

Biography

Li was born in

Huan County Huan County or Huanxian () is an administrative district in eastern Gansu province, China at the junction of three provinces: Gansu, Shaanxi to the northeast, and Ningxia to the west and northwest. It is under the administration of the prefecture- ...

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

in July 1958. He secondary studied at Huan County No.1 High School. After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he enrolled at Huadong Petroleum Institute (now China University of Petroleum). He obtained a doctor's degree in geophysical logging under the supervision of and Tan Tingdong (). From January 1989 to January 1991 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS). After graduation, he joined the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED). In 2017, he became a visiting professor at the China University of Petroleum. On December 6, 2019, he was haired as a distinguished professor at

Anhui University of Science and Technology Anhui University of Science and Technology () one of the five key universities in Anhui Province, China. It is situated in Huainan Huainan () is a prefecture-level city with 3,033,528 inhabitants as of the 2020 census in north-central Anhui p ...

Honours and awards

* 1992 China Youth Science and Technology Award * November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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Li Ning
on the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Ning 1958 births Living people People from Huan County Engineers from Gansu China University of Petroleum alumni Academic staff of Anhui University of Science and Technology Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering