Xu Li, a teacher at the school of chemical engineering of Tianjin university. From September 1989 to June 1999, studied for bachelor, master's and doctorate degrees from the institute of chemical engineering of Tianjin university. She graduated from Tianjin University in June 1999, and received a doctorate. In 2010 she was promoted to a professor.

The main scientific research direction of Professor Xu is the mass transfer and separation, polymer membrane fuel cell.

In recent years professor Xu has published hundreds of papers, of which more than 60 articles have been searched by the Science Citation Index or the Engineering Index .As a project leader, the team have completed a number of National Natural Science Foundation and Tianjin Natural Science Research Fund, key research projects and business cooperation issues.