Xinfeng Li is an Associate Professor at the Sun Yat-sen University, Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Zhuhai, China. He has a PhD in 2017 from Xi’an Jiaotong University and works as a post-doc in Washington State University. His research interests include hydrogen embrittlement, hydrogen-materials interactions and materials science, materials degradation, and the mechanical behavior of materials. He has published more than 60 SCI papers in internationally recognized journals, with a total citation count of 2,664 and a highest single-paper citation of 560. He was invited to write four review papers in the field of hydrogen embrittlement as the first author, among which two were selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers. He has served as a Guest Editor for special issues of international journals such as Metals and Frontiers in Materials. He was recognized as a Top 2% Global Scientist in 2025 and 2024. In 2025, he received the Excellent Paper Award from JMST and the Outstanding Paper Award from AMSE.
Hydrogen embrittlement, Hydrogen-materials interactions and Materials science, Materials degradation, and the mechanical behavior of materials
