Yamei Li
Email: yamei.li@elsi.jp Tel: +81 3 57343762
Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 (I7E-310) Ookayama Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
Educational background
Ph.D. in Material Physics and Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
B.S. in Material Sciences and Engineering, Department of Material Science & Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China, 2009
Professional appointments
Specially appointed associate professor, ELSI, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2023.04-present
Specially appointed assistant professor, ELSI, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2017.12-2023.03
Postdoctoral researcher, Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team, Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Riken, Japan, 2014.08-2017.11
Research interests
Environmental electrochemistry, enzyme-mimetic catalysis, nitrogen cycle, thermochromism, solar modulation materials
Honors
ELSI incentive award, 2019 and 2021
Research grants
1. [科研費] 若手, 2019~2022. Project title: Electrocatalytic Reductive Functionalization of Carbon Dioxide. Representative Researcher: Yamei LI.
2. Director’s fund of ELSI, 2019. 12 Representative Researcher: Yamei LI.
3. [科研費] 新学術領域研究公募, 2020~2021. Project title: Geo-electrochemical Conversion of Amino Acids Induced by Aqueous Alteration in Carbonaceous Planetesimals. Representative Researcher: Yamei LI.
4. 東工大アシスタント配置プログラム, 2019/11~2020/3.
5. [科研費] 学術変革領域研究(A), 2022~2026. Project title: CO環境の生命惑星化学. 化学班: CO環境で駆動される前駆代謝システムの実証 分担: Yamei LI.
Recent publications
1. Y. Li*, H. Kurokawa, Y. Sekine, Y. Kebukawa, Y. Nakano, N. Kitadai, N. Zhang, X. Zang, Y. Ueno, G. Fujimori, R. Nakamura, K. Fujishima, J. Isa, Aqueous breakdown of aspartate and glutamate to n-ω-amino acids on the parent bodies of carbonaceous chondrites and asteroid Ryugu, Science Advances, 2023, 9 (50).
2. Y. Li*, N. Kitadai, Y. Sekine, H. Kurokawa, Y. Nakano, K. Johnson-Finn, Geoelectrochemistry-driven alteration of amino acids to derivative organics in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies, Nature Communications 2022, 13(4893).
3. H. Kurokawa, M. Laneuville, Y. Li, N. Zhang, Y. Fujii, H. Sakuraba, C. Houser, and H. J. Cleaves, The Origin of Earth's Mantle Nitrogen: Primordial or Early Biogeochemical Cycling? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2022, 23(5), e2021GC010295.
4. D. He*, H. Ooka, Y. Li, Y. Kim, A. Yamaguchi, K. Adachi, D. Hashizume, N. Yoshida, S. Toyoda, S. Kim, R. Nakamura*, Regulation of the electrocatalytic nitrogen cycle based on sequential proton−electron transfer, Nature Catalysis, 5 (9), 798-806
For the whole list of publications, see Publication.