Academic Qualification
Ph.D. in University of Groningen
Master in Nankai University
Bachelor in Huazhong Agriculture University
Teaching Area
Supramolecular Chemistry
Soft Materials
Research Area
Soft Materials, Systems Chemistry, Molecular Self-Assembly, Biomimetic Chemistry, Catalysis, Energy, Nanomedicine
Professional Services
Editorial Board Member, ChemSystemsChem, since 2021
Editorial Board Member, Smart Materials in Medicine, since 2021
Youth member of editor board, Chinese Chemical Letters, from 2019.07 to 2022.06
Working Experience
Apr. 2025 ~ present, Associate Professor, Macao Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (MIMSE), Faculty of Innovation Engineering, MUST
Sep. 2016 ~ Mar. 2025, Senior Researcher/Group Leader, Medicity Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku
Jul.2014 ~ Jul. 2016, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Academic Publication (selected)
1. Jinghui Yang, Xin Wang, Xiaoxia Wu, Yonglei Lyu, Anastassios C. Papageorgiou, Jianwei Li*, Quantitative Synthesis of Dynamic Combinatorial Macrocycles Accelerated by Preorganization of AIEgens for Live Visualization of Drug Release, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2025, 6, 102355.
2. Dawei Qi, Xuncheng Shi, Caihong Lin, Ferdinand Holzhausen, Liljeström Ville, Xun Sun, Jinghui Luo, Leena Pitkänen, Ya Zhu, Jessica Rosenholm, Sirpa Jalkanen, Jianwei Li*, Self-Adaptive Synthesis of Non-Covalent Crosslinkers while Folding Single-Chain Polymers, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202408670.
3. Yonglei Lyu, Ying Hu, Jinghui Yang, Xin Wang, Jianwei Li*, Mutualistic Synthesis from Orthogonal Dynamic Covalent Reactions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202412020.
4. Ke Shi, Xintao Lv, Jiawei Liu, Yiyang Lin, Jianwei Li*, Mechanically active supramolecular systems, Small Science, 2024, 2300300.
5. Xiaoxia Wu, Jie Xing, Yonglei Lyu, Jingjing Yu, Jinghui Yang, Dawei Qi, Xin Wang, Jie Lin, Guoliang Shao, Aiguo Wu, Jianwei Li*, Kinetic control over co-self-assembly using an in situ dynamic covalent reaction resulting in a synergistic chemo-photodynamic therapy, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2023, 4, 101598.
6. Yonglei Lyu, Xiaoxia Wu, Anastassios C. Papageorgiou, Jinghui Yang, Xin Wang, Dawei Qi, Jianwei Li*, Dynamic Covalent Macrocycles Co-delivering Genes and Drugs against Drug-Resistant Cancer, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2022, 3, 101150.
7. Jingjing Yu, Dawei Qi, Ermei Mäkilä, Lippo Lassila, Anastassios C. Papageorgiou, Markus Peurla, Jessica Rosenholm, Zhao Zhao, Pekka Vallittu, Sirpa Jalkanen, Chunman Jia, Jianwei Li*, Small Molecule-based Supramolecular Plastics Mediated by Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202204611.
8. Meng Zhou, Xin Zhong, Dan Wei, Kang Yang, Yifan Chen, Chunman Jia, Jianwei Li*, Highly Efficient Doping Titanium Dioxide with Sulfur using Disulfide-linked Macrocycles for Hydrogen Production under Visible Light, Green Chem., 2022, 24, 2557-2566.
9. Yu Cao, Jian Yang, Dominik Eichin, Fangzhe Zhao, Dawei Qi, Laura Kahari, Chunman Jia, Markus Peurla, Jessica M. Rosenholm, Zhao Zhao, Sirpa Jalkanen, Jianwei Li*, Self-Synthesizing Nanorods from Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries against Drug Resistant Cancer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 3062-3070.
10. Joongoo Lee, Arnold J. Boersma, Marc A. Boudreau, Stephen Cheley, Oliver Daltrop, Jianwei Li, Hiroko Tamagaki and Hagan Bayley, Semisynthetic Nanoreactor for Reversible Single-Molecule Covalent Chemistry, ACS NANO, 2016, 10, 8843-8850.
11. Piotr Nowak, Mathieu Colomb-Delsuc, Sijbren Otto* and Jianwei Li*, Template-Triggered Emergence of a Self-Replicator from a Dynamic Combinatorial Library, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 10965-10969.
12. Jianwei Li, Piotr Nowak, Sijbren Otto, An Allosteric Receptor by Simultaneous “Casting” and “Molding” in a Dynamic Combinatorial Library, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 833-837.
13. Jianwei Li, Piotr Nowak, Hugo Fanlo-Virgós, Sijbren Otto, Catenanes from Catenanes: Quantitative Assessment of Cooperativity in Dynamic Combinatorial Catenantion, Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 4968-4974.
14. Jianwei Li, Piotr Nowak, Sijbren Otto, Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry: From Exploring Molecular Recognition to Systems Chemistry, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 9222-9239.
15. Jianwei Li, Jacqui M. A. Carnall, Marc C. A. Stuart, Sijbren Otto, Hydrogel Formation upon Photoinduced Covalent Capture of Macrocycle Stacks for Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 8384-8386.
Research Grants
2023.03 -- 2025.02 Mobility Funding for International Cooperation between Finland and China, Research Council of Finland, Finland
2022.09 -- 2026.08 Senior Researcher Fellowship, Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, Finland
2018.09 -- 2022.08 Covalent Capture of Responsive Anticancer Nanocarriers from Dynamic Molecular Networks, Research Council of Finland, Finland
2018.05-- 2020.12 Starting Grant for Group Leaders, Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, Finland.
2017.09-- 2018.08 Project Funding, Finnish Culture Foundation, Finland.
Patents
N/A
Professional Certification and Awards
Senior Researcher Fellowship, Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, Finland
Student Awards
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Oversea Students, China
Ubbo Emmius PhD Fellowship, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
CLSA Scholarship for Outstanding Researcher, Nankai University, China
Best Bachelor Thesis, Hubei Province, China
Professional Society Membership
Life-time membership, Turku Collegium for Science and Medicine, University of Turku, Finland
