Mingjia Li is a professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University with“Young Talent Support Plan” of the university. She was awarded international and national awards such as Asian Young Scientist Award, National Innovative Talents Support Plan of China Postdoctoral Foundation, Outstanding Young Investigator Award in Shannxi Province, Thousand Youth Talents Plan in Shannxi Province, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Shannxi Province etc.. She is the associate editor of Applied Thermal Engineering and on the editorial board of Journal of Thermal Science and Energy & Environment.

She was granted bachelor degree from University of Liverpool (U.K) and master degree from University of Nottingham (U.K.). She obtained the doctoral degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University with the joint program cooperated by Columbia University (U.S).

She mainly focuses on Energy-saving theories & new methods in efficient energy utilization, New energy and Energy storage. She published 63 journal papers (34 papers are published with first author and corressponding author) in top international journals with h-index of 25. Among them, 10 papers are selected in Essential Science Indicators (1% top) including 2 Hot papers (0.1% top) and 8 Research Front papers. She has 23 invention patents and 6 software copyrights. She gave 10 planery talks and invited talks in international conferences. She served as 9 session chairs in international conferences as well.

As a PI, she totally hosted over 30 national and industrial research programs. Eg. National Science Foundation, National Key Research and Development Program of China-subtopic, the Fund of Ministry of Education, Innovative Talents Support Plan of China Postdoctoral Foundation, International coorperation program etc. The achievements of the projects are highly approved by the partners.