Famous teacher of Beijing Colleges and Universities, 2017-2021 Excellent Moral Educator of Beijing Colleges and universities, responsible professor of Qiushi Academy. Senior Member of Chinese Chemical Society; Member of Crystallography Society of China, member of crystallography Education and Popularization Committee. He is also an expert in reviewing dissertations of National Natural Science Foundation, Academic Degree Center of Ministry of Education, and papers of important academic journals.
In 1997, he received his doctorate degree from the State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry of Nanjing University under the guidance of Mr. You Xiaozeng, a famous chemist in China. He has been engaged in academic research in the laboratory of Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Nottingham, Academia Sinica (Taipei), Northwestern University, USA, Sir Fraser Stoddart (2016 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry) and so on. He has presided over and completed a number of funds, including five National Natural Science Foundations, one cooperation plan for high-end foreign experts of the Ministry of Science and Technology, one special fund for doctoral programs of the Ministry of Education, and one start-up fund for returned overseas students of the Ministry of Education. He has published more than 90 academic papers in J. Am. Chem.Soc., Science and Chemistry in China, and other journals. So far, it has trained more than 50 doctoral and master's students, including more than 10 international students.
He has taught 8 basic and specialized courses for undergraduates and postgraduates, including Inorganic Chemistry, General Chemistry, College Chemistry, and Coordination Chemistry (Bilingual). Teach the national quality video open course "Into the Crystal World" and the MOOCs "Environmental Safety and Green Chemistry (bilingual)". Edited and published "Coordination Chemistry (Bilingual edition)" (third edition, school-level postgraduate excellent textbook).
He has won the first "T-more" Excellent Teacher Award, the First Famous Teaching Teacher Award, the Advanced individual of teacher ethics, the excellent doctoral dissertation Advisor, the excellent Master's Dissertation Advisor and other honorary titles of Beijing Institute of Technology.

(1) Coordination chemistry and supramolecular chemistry of nucleotides: design and construct metal complexes, coordination polymers and supramolecular assemblies of nucleotides with different structures and properties through metal coordination, hydrogen bonding, π-π stacking and other synergies. The structure of the assembly was studied by X-ray single crystal diffraction, powder diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Special attention is paid to the chirality of coordination supramolecular assemblies.
(2) Design, synthesis, structure and properties of fluorescent functional molecules and their metal complexes: Design and synthesize three -, four -, symmetrical, asymmetrical, D-A and other novel Schiff base ligands, and study their fluorescence properties before and after coordination with metal and their effects on other environmental factors, as well as their potential fluorescent probes in environment and organisms.
(3) eutectic studies between functional organic molecules. The crystal or eutectic structure of functional small organic molecules is controlled by selecting different functional small organic molecules and changing the conditions. Recognize the relationship between structure and property.

September 1980 - July 1984: Bachelor of Anhui Normal University
September 1986 - July 1989: Master of Anhui Normal University
September 1994 - July 1997: Doctor, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University

20017 Jan - present Beijing University of Technology Senior Professor
July 2007 - December 2016 Professor of Beijing Institute of Technology
October 2003 - June 2007: Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
September 2001 - September 2003: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Taiwan University and Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica
November 1999 - August 2001: Fellow of the Royal Society, University of Nottingham February 1998 - October 1999: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of PhotoChemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
August 1989 - August 1994: Lecturer, Yantai Normal University, Shandong Province
August 1984 - August 1986: Teacher of No. 6 Middle School, Wuhu City, Anhui Province

1． Yang-hong Zhu, Zhongkui Li, Wen-jing Song, Maroof Ahmad Khan and Hui Li* Conformation Locking of the Pentose Ring in Nucleotide Monophosphate Coordination Polymers via pi-pi Stacking and Metal-Ion Coordination Inorg. Chem. , 61, 818-829 2022.
2． Yang-hong Zhu, Zhongkui Li, Xue Zhong, Xuan Wu Yongqiu Lu, Maroof Ahmad Khan and Hui Li* Coordination Patterns of the Diphosphate in IDP Coordination Complexes: Crystal Structure and Chirality, Inorg. Chem. , 61, 19425-19439, 2022.
3． Xue Zhong, Zhongkui Li, Rufei Shi, Li Yan, Yanhong Zhu, and Hui Li, Schiff Base-Modified Nanomaterials for Ion Detection: A Review, ACS Appl. Nano Mater, 2022
4． Wajid Hussain, Maroof Ahmad Khan, Zhongkui Li, Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Ayyaz Mahmood, Tuncer Hökelek, Muhammad Naveed, Ali Raza Ayub, Hui Li. Synthesis of nickel, calcium and magnesium naphthalene diimide complexes as supercapacitor materials. Chemical Papers. https://doi.org/1 0.1 007/s1 1 696-022-02442-3, 2022.
5． Ali Raza Ayub, Umer Yaqoob, Sidra Rafiq, Rao Aqil Shehzad, Khurshid Ayub, Javed Iqbal Hui Li, K. H. Mahmoud and Khaled A. Elsayed. A Quantum Chemical Study of Outstanding Structural, Electronic and Nonlinear Optical Polarizability of Boron Nitride (B12N12) Doped with Super Salt (P7BaNO3), Journal of inorganic and organometallic polymers and materials https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-022-02371-4, 2022.