Dr Steven Qi Li is a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship in High Voltage Group at the University of Manchester. His research interests include reliability for solid dielectrics, advanced UHV/EHV electricity transmission line optimisation for future Net-zero power systems, electromagnetic environmental emissions from UHV/EHV transmission lines and the application of artificial intelligent into future power systems. He is an active member in CIGRE working group B2.69 and B2.83 and a youth committee member in China Electrotechnical Society.

Dr Steven Qi Li obtained the BEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at both the University of Birmingham and Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2007, M.Sc. with distinction in Electrical Power Engineering from the University of Manchester in 2009, and Ph.D. in the same institution in 2013. Since then, he has been working for the University of Manchester, National Grid UK and Chongqing University (China) for 9 years before joining the University of Manchester as a ‘Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship’. Within academia and industry, he has led around 20 research projects with wide range of topics for power industry, and was one of the recipients of an IET Innovation Award in 2015 (for his PhD research work).