Xiaoguang Li received his Ph.D. in physics from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in the March of 1989. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), he joined the Structure Research Laboratory, USTC in 1990. He visited the Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Tokyo from 1993 to 1994, as a JSPS (the Japan Society for Promotion of Science) Research Fellow, working with Prof. K. Kitazawa and Prof. K. Kishio. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Physics, USTC. 
He has authored and co-authored more than 350 refereed journal publications, 4 invited book chapters, and 15 patents. He serves as editorial board members of international journals such as Journal of Materiomics, Materials Letters, Results in Physics, Chinese Physics B, as well as Journal of the Chinese Ceramic Society and so on.