He received BS at Shanghai Medical University, MSc at Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), PhD at Aarhus University (Denmark). He has work experience in China, the Netherlands, Australia, and Denmark. Dr. Li is recognized as the No. 1 researcher in population bereavement research and one of the influential epidemiologists in register-based research. His research findings were reported multiple times by BBC, New York times, Reuters, etc. He is the grantee of the most prestigious research grant (European Research Council grant) and the main supervisor for PhD students from Denmark, Spain, England, and China. He has published more than 100 original scientific papers, including some as the first author in New Engl J Med, Lancet, Circulation, Plos Med, etc.