2025.11--至今    中国科学院上海有机化学研究所，研究员

2022.09--2025.11  美国科罗拉多州立大学，博士后

2021.09--2022.09  美国科罗拉多州立大学，研究学者

2020.07--2021.09  中国科学院上海有机化学研究所，研究助理

2015.09--2020.07，中国科学院上海有机化学研究所，金属有机，博士 

2011.09--2015.06，华中科技大学，应用化学，学士

(1) Li Zhou,+ Zhen Zhang,+ Changxia Shi, Miriam Scoti, Deepak K. Barange, Ravikumar R. Gowda, Eugene Y.-X. Chen. Chemistry circular, mechanically tough, and melt-processable polyhydroxyalkanoates. Science 2023, 380, 64. 

(2) Li Zhou, Liam T. Reilly, Changxia Shi, Ethan C. Quinn & Eugene Y.-X. Chen. Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers. Nat. Chem. 2024, 16, 1357. 

(3) Li Zhou, Zhen Zhang, Changxia Shi, Ainara Sangroniz, Ravikumar R. Gowda, Miriam Scoti, Deepak K. Barange, Clarissa L. Lincoln, Gregg T. Beckham, Eugene Y.-X. Chen. Chain-end controlled depolymerization: Selectivity of PHAs with dual closed-loops and record-high melting temperature. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 29895. 

(4) Li Zhou,+ Liping Li,+ Sudong Zhang, Xiao-kang Kuang, You-Yun Zhou, and Yong Tang. SaBOX/Ni(II) catalyzed regio- and enantioselective remote hydrocarboxylation of unactivated alkenes with CO2. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 18823. 

(5) Li Zhou,+ Wen-Guang Yan,+ Xiu-Li Sun, Lijia Wang, and Yong Tang. A versatile enantioselective catalytic cyclopropanation-rearrangement approach to the divergent construction of chiral spiroaminals and fused bicyclic acetals. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 18964.

 (6) Li Zhou, Shu-Yang Yu, Yong Tang, and Lijia Wang. Facile stereoselective approach to diverse spiroheterocyclic tetrahydropyrans: concise synthesis of (+)-broussonetine G and H. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 15016.

 (7) Zhen Zhang,+ Ethan C. Quinn,+ Jacob K. Kenny, Alexandra Grigoropoulos, Jason S. DesVeaux, Tiffany Chen, Li Zhou, Ting Xu, Gregg T. Beckham, Eugene Y.-X. Chen. Stereomicrostructure-regulated biodegradable adhesives. Science 2025, 387, 297. 

 (8) Miriam Scoti, Li Zhou, Eugene Y.-X. Chen, Claudio De Rosa. Crystal structure of atactic and isotactic poly(3-hydroxy-2,2-dimethylbutyrate): a novel chemically recyclable poly(hydroxyalkanoate) with tacticity independent crystallinity. Macromolecules. 2024, 57, 4357.

 (9) Xiao-Kang Kuang, Jun Zhu, Li Zhou, Lijia Wang, Sunewang R. Wang, and Yong Tang. Synergetic tandem enantiomeric enrichment in catalytic asymmetric multi-component reactions (AMCRs): highly enantioselective construction of tetracyclic indolines with four continuous stereocenters. ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 4991.

 (10) Jiang-Lin Hu, Li Zhou, Lijia Wang, Zuowei Xie, and Yong Tang. Copper catalyzed asymmetric [4＋2] annulations of D‐A cyclobutanes with aldehydes. Chin. J. Chem. 2018, 36, 47.