Associate Dean for Research
Xiaosong Li serves as the associate dean for research in the University of Washington’s College of Arts and Sciences. Li, the Larry R. Dalton Endowed Chair in Chemistry, most recently served as associate vice provost for research cyberinfrastructure in the UW Office of Research. In his role, Li is responsible for the strategy, operations, and implementation of the College’s research program, as well as supporting and elevating the research enterprise across the College’s four divisions, with a focus on faculty research support and grantsmanship.
Internationally recognized for his work in time-dependent quantum theory and relativistic electronic structure methods, Li has a passion for collaborative research and a depth of experience in research administration. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Wayne State University in 2003, and after serving as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, he joined the University of Washington in 2005. In addition to his faculty position in the Department of Chemistry, he is a lab fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and serves as executive director of the National Science Foundation MRSEC Molecular Engineering Materials Center.
Li’s research has been published in 300 peer-reviewed publications, and he has developed several computational software packages. His impressive awards and honors include a Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the American Chemical Society Jack Simons Award in Theoretical Physical Chemistry, and the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award. He has been named a Fellow of the American Physics Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry and is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.