Born in 1988 in Shenyang, China, Mo Li graduated with a BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2012 and 2015, respectively. During this time, he worked on projects on membranes for gas separation and the synthesis of well-defined nanostructure. He then went on to pursue PhD studies in ETH Zurich in 2015 working on CO2 sorbents and metal-oxide gas sensors. In 2017, he moved to EPFL and continued with his PhD focusing on near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) for the investigation of CO2 hydrogenation mechanisms.

Heterogeneous catalysts for reverse water-gas shift reaction
 Size-selected metal nanoparticles as well-defined model catalysts
 Near ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS) for the investigation of CO2 hydrogenation mechanisms