Cuiling Li received her Ph.D. degree from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China in 2012. Since then she started postdoctoral work with Prof. Yusuke Yamauchi supported by JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship in National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. She is currently a Research Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Hua Zhang at the School of Materials Science and Engineering in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has coauthored over 60 peer-reviewed publications.

Her research interests focus on the tailored design and synthesis of nanostructured materials and their applications in energy conversion systems, electrocatalysis, and analytical applications.