Qingwen Li received her PhD from Tsinghua University in China in 2001. She worked at Peking University as a postdoctoral fellow from 2001 to 2003. Then, she moved to University of Cambridge as a Research Associate from 2003 to 2005. After that, she worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005 to 2007. She joined Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics in 2007. Her expertise is controlled growth of aligned carbon nanotubes and their applications in the fields of structural materials and electronics.