Chen Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California - Riverside. He is the former EFree Neutron Scattering Coordinator, where he served as a liaison between research groups working on EFree projects and neutron beamlines at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and elsewhere. 

Chen received his PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology working with EFree Partner Brent Fultz, and has done his postdoctoral work in the area of inelastic neutron scattering at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge.