Li Jiayang

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Li Jiayang (; born 1956)

Education Li was educated at Anhui Agricultural University in China where he was award a Bachelor's degree in Agronomy in 1982.

Career Following his PhD, Li completed postdoctoral research with Robert L. Last at Cornell University. He has been Professor of plant molecular genetics at the Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1994.

Awards and honours Li was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2015. His nomination reads:

Li was also elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2001, a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2004, a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the US in 2011, a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2012, and a Foreign Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2013. In both 2016 and 2019, he became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.