Research interests mainly cover luminescent materials and biomaging:

•  Upconversion luminescent nanomaterials and their biomedical applications
•  Luminescent chemodosimeters and chemosensors for bioimaging
•  Multi-functional nanomaterials for theronastics

• Prof. Li joined the editorial board of several professional journals, such as Inorganic Chemistry, Nano Research, Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging, Acta Chimica Sinica and so on.

• Second Award of National Natural Science (2003) 
• Chinese Chemical Society Award for Young Chemist (2003)
• Phospherus Award of Science and Technology of Shanghai (2003)
• Excellent Talents Support Plan of New Century, Ministry of Education (2006)
• Outstanding Young Scientist Award of National Natural Science Foundation of China(2008)
• Nomination Award of the 5th Young Talents of Science and Technology of Shanghai (2010)
• Shanghai Outstanding Subject Leaders (2011)
• Award of The 6th Young Talents of Science and Technology of Shanghai (2012)
• The 13th China Youth Science Award (2013)
• Young and Middle-Aged Leading Science and Technology Innovation Talents (2013)
• Shanghai Leading Talents (2013)
• Chinese Chemical Society - the Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Young Chemist (2014)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014)

Fuyou Li was born in Zhejiang, China, in 1973. He received his B.S. degree in 1995 and Ph.D. degree in 2000 from Beijing Normal University. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University from 2000–2002. He worked as an associate professor at Peking University from 2002-2003 and Fudan University from 2003-2006. He has been working as a full Professor at Fudan University since 2006. His current research interests involve upconversion luminescent materials and luminescent chemodisimeters for sensing and bioimaging. To date, his research records 200 scientific publications which have been received more than 10000 citations by others.

Modern Chemistry、Molecular Imaging

1. Qian Liu, Wei Feng, Tianshe Yang, Tao Yi, Fuyou Li*, Upconversion Luminescence imaging of cells and small-animals, Nat. Protoc., 2013, 8, 2033-2044.
2.  Yuming Yang, Qiang Zhao, Wei Feng, and Fuyou Li*,Luminescent Chemodosimeters for Bioimaging, Chem. Rev., 2013, 113, 192-270.
3. Qian Liu, Baoru Yin, Tianshe Yang, Yongchao Yang, Zhen Shen, Ping Yao, Fuyou Li*, A general strategy for biocompatible, high-effective upconversion nanocapsules based on triplet-triplet annihilation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 5029–5037.
4.     Yi Liu, Min Chen, Tianye Cao, Yun Sun, Chunyan Li, Qian Liu, Tianshe Yang, Liming Yao, Wei Feng, Fuyou Li*, A Cyanine-modified Nanosystem for in vivo Upconversion Luminescence Bioimaging of Methylmercury, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 9869−9876.
5. Zhen Jiang,Ming Xu,Fuyou Li*, and Yanlei Yu*, Red-light Controllable Liquid-Crystal Soft Actuators via Low-power Excited Upconversion Based on Triplet-Triplet Annihilation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 16446-16453.
6. Qian Liu, Tianshe Yang, Wei Feng, and Fuyou Li*, Blue-emissive upconversion nanoparticles for low-power-excited bioimaging in vivo, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 5390–5397.
7. Chunyan Li, Mengxiao Yu, Yun Sun, Yongquan Wu, Chunhui Huang, Fuyou Li*, A Nonemissive Iridium(III) Complex That Specifically Lights-up the Nuclei of Living Cells, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 11231–11239.
8. Jinliang Liu, Yi Liu, Qian Liu, Chunyan, Li, Lining Sun, and Fuyou Li*, Iridium(III) Complex-coating Lanthanide Nanosystem for Upconversion Luminescence Detection and Bio-imaging of Cyanide Anions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 15276–15279.
9. Wei Wu, Liming Yao, Tianshe Yang, Ruoyuan Yin, Fuyou Li*, and Yanlei Yu*, NIR-Light-Induced Deformation of Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystal Polymers Using Upconversion Nanophosphors, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 15810–15813.
10. Qian Liu, Yun Sun, Tianshe Yang, Wei Feng, Chenguang Li, Fuyou Li*, Sub-10 nm hexagonal lanthanide-doped NaLuF4 upconversion nanocyrstals for sensitive bioimaging in vivo, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 17122–17125.