Lin Li, FREng, CEng, FIET,

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, FCIRP (), is a professor of

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at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

Early life

Li earned his BSc in control engineering from

Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology (DUT) (), colloquially known in Chinese as Dagong (), is a public research university located in Dalian, Liaoning, China, with an additional campus in Panjin, Liaoning. Established in April 1949, it is the ...

in 1982 and his PhD in laser engineering from

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, London in 1989.Prof Lin Li (BSc, PhD, DIC, FREng, CEng, FIET, FLIA, FCIRP) - personal details.
University of Manchester. Retrieved 6 July 2017.

Career

Li worked as a postdoctoral research associate in high power laser engineering at the

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from 1988 to 1994. He joined UMIST in 1994, where he established the first high-power laser processing research laboratory and its associated research group. He became a full professor in 2000. He invented the microsphere super-resolution optical nanoscope with a 50 nm resolution and has 47 patents in the field of laser processing and photonic science. His current research relates to the use of

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in welding. He is a fellow of the

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, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, the

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, the International Academy for Production Engineering, and a Chartered Engineer. In 2017 it was announced that the LIG Nanowise, a spin-off company from the University of Manchester chaired by Li, had invented new

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techniques that can quadruple the resolution of optical microscopes.British scientists invent 4x more powerful nanotech microscope.
Sky News, 21 June 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.

Awards

His awards include: *Arthur Charles Main Award from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in 2001 for work in laser based nuclear decommissioning technology *Sir Frank Whittle Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013 for achievements in engineering innovations in manufacturing *

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of the Royal Society for his research into laser nano-fabrication and nano-imaging, 2014. *Researcher of the Year in Engineering and Physical Sciences at The University of Manchester in 2014.

References

External links

University of Manchester Staff Profile

ResearchGate Profile
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