Li Cuilian was born on September 22th, 1967. She received her master's degree in 1993 in  Sichuan Normal University and her PhD in 2001 by the Department of physics in South China University of Technology. She worked in the Physics Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University as post-doctor from 2001 to 2003, and becomes a vice professor in 2003 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. From 2005 to 2007, she worked as a visiting scholar at the physics institute of "Central Research Institute" of Taiwan; Now, she is a vice professor of college of physics and astronomy, in Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The National Science Fund Projects of China Participated or presided by her:
1. The physical properties of quasicrystals,
2. The major research plan of the National Natural Science Foundation, theoretical physics and interdisciplinary issues,
3. The suspension of micro (nano) interaction of nanoparticles, 
4. National 973 project of "electronic intrinsic degrees of freedom control in new quantum materials”.
The National Science Fund Project of China prized
The contribution of spin three heavy state to zero field splitting of transition metal 3d4/3d6 ions in complex, be honored with the second prize of natural science progress of Sichuan province in 1996.

Research Interests:

参与或主持的国家自然基金课题有：1、准晶的物理性质，2、国家自然科学基金重大研究计划——理论物理学及其交叉科学若干前沿问题，3、悬浮液中微（纳）米颗粒的相互作用（主持），4、国家973项目子项目 《 新型量子材料中电子内禀自由度的调控 》。

1. Mechanism of morphological transition in hetero-epitaxial growth of metal films，Li Cui-Lian and Hu Kin-Chun,  APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 96, 093101 （2010）.

2. Curvature effect on the surface diffusion of silver adatoms on carbon nanotubes,Wu Ming-Chyaand Li Cui-Lian, Phys. Rev. B 74,125424 (2006).

3. The densitydistribution of thecounter-ions and theco-ions confined intwo similarly charged plates, Li Cuilian and Ma Hongru, J. Chem. Phys. Vol.121, No.4, 22 July, 2004.

4. Low-temperature lattice excitation of Icosahedral  Al-Mn-Pd  quasicrystal, Physical Review B Vol.63，064203（2001）.

5. 带质点杆的横振动特性研究, 李翠莲，大学物理 Vol.24, No. 11,23-26 (2005) （教学代表作）

获奖课题《自旋三重态对络合物中过渡金属3d4/3d6离子零场分裂的贡献》，1996年四川省自然科学进步奖二等奖。

Books
Electronic teaching plan of university physics (four subjects), 2004, higher education press published;
University physics (network tutorial, Chapter 16); 2010, higher education published;     
Incisive explanation of university physics and typical problems, published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University press in January 2017.