Dr. Mo Li

Biography

Professor Mo Li received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1994, under the supervision of Professors William L. Johnson and William Goddard. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech and Argonne National Laboratory, he joined Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York. Li returned to academia in 1998 and served as an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University until 2001. He is currently a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research focuses on computational materials science and materials theory, aiming to understand the fundamental properties and processes of materials and to predict material behaviors. His ongoing research areas include phase transformations, mechanical properties of materials, and statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium processes, particularly in nanoscale materials, metallic glasses, and the effects of irradiation on materials. Li employs a blend of theoretical and computational methods to tackle unique challenges presented by materials that exhibit metastability and lack long-range order, advancing algorithm development and simulation techniques.

Research Interests