Researcher Li Wu is currently a researcher at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (Ningbo Oriental University of Technology), a young talent under the National High-Level Talent Program, and a major developer of the internationally renowned lattice thermal conductivity calculation software ShengBTE (phonon BTE). He received his bachelor's degree from Zhengzhou University in 2006, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 (jointly trained by the Max Planck Society of Germany). From 2011 to 2013, he conducted postdoctoral research at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). From 2013 to 2015, he conducted postdoctoral research as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Dutch company Scientific Computing & Modelling (SCM). In 2015, he served as a researcher at CEA. From 2016 to 2023, he served as an assistant professor and associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, and subsequently joined Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo. He is mainly engaged in theoretical computational research on material transport properties. He was the first to achieve an exact first-principles solution of the electronic Boltzmann equation, predicted the high thermal conductivity metallic material θ-TaN (which has been experimentally confirmed by *Science*), and incorporated electron–phonon and phonon–phonon interactions into the Boltzmann transport equation for unified treatment, revealing the regulatory mechanism of electron–phonon coupling on graphene thermal transport and Raman linewidths. His papers have been cited more than 10,000 times in total, and he has been repeatedly selected for the global top 2% scientists "Lifetime Scientific Impact" ranking (2021–2023) and as an Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar. At the conference's AI + Future Materials Forum, he plans to share theoretical computational progress on electron–phonon coupling regulation of graphene thermal transport, as well as the design of high thermal conductivity materials for chip thermal management.
Important Honors: Young talent under the National High-Level Talent Program; major developer of ShengBTE software; Marie Curie Fellow; repeatedly selected for the global top 2% scientists "Lifetime Scientific Impact" ranking; Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar.
