Hua Li, male from Shangluo, Shaanxi, was born in September 1962. He started to work in July 1983. He is member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Deputy Director of Educational Technology Committee and member of the Standing Committee of the Democratic Progressive Shaanxi Provincial Committee. As Doctor of Science, he is also Professor, Doctoral Mentor and Vice President of Xi'an Shiyou University.

Hua Li studied chemistry for his Bachelor’s degree in Yan'an University from September 1979 to July 1983. He got his Master of Science from September 1985 to July 1988 and his Doctorate of Science with Researcher Qiang Su and Researcher Lu Xu as his mentors from September 1993 to July 1996 in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From July 1996 to December 1997, he conducted post-doctoral research with Hong Gao, Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences as his mentor. Later, he served as a visiting professor in the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry, University of Washington from 1998 to 1999. During his work in the United States, Li was sponsored by the U.S. National Defense Research Fund, paid a short-term visit and gave lectures in the U.S. Naval Laboratory (NRL) and Arizona State University. He served as visiting professor in Masaryk University, Czech Republic from September 2000 to July 2001, and in the Institute of Applied Chemistry, University of Reutlingen from September to December 2001. Besides, he studied in the special training class for management and operation cadres at Ritsumeikan University, China, from September to October 2007.

Hua Li conducted research on bioanalytical chemistry and process analysis, energetic materials, green energy chemistry and processes. He presided over 7 research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the national major instrument and equipment development special sub-project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the major special project of the National Defense Science and Industry Commission and the National Defense 973 Sub-Project. Besides, he published over 200 papers in Chem. Sci., Anal. Chem., Chem. Commun., Electrophoresis, and other journals at home and abroad. There are more than 130 papers of them being accepted by SCI, showing that he is globally influential in the research work in related fields. He has been invited for many times to well-known universities at home and abroad as well as national laboratory for a visit and giving lectures. He served as member of the academic committee of international academic conferences held at home and abroad for many times. He is one of the reviewers for such famous international academic journals as Electrophoresis, Journal of Chromatography A, Anal. Chim. Acta, Anal. Chem., Talanta in the research field of chemometrics and chemoinformatics. He won the Excellence Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Dean Scholarship in 1996 and the second Shaanxi Youth Science and Technology Award in 1998. In 2001, he was awarded as an outstanding overseas student in Shaanxi Province. He won ten science and technology awards. For instance, in 2006, he won the first prize of Shaanxi Science and Technology Award (ranked first) and in 2008, he won the second prize of Shaanxi Science and Technology Award (ranked second). He has supervised 14 doctoral students and more than 40 master students, and now supervises more than 10 postdoctoral, doctoral and master students.