Dr. Li is the James D. Watson Professor Emeritus at UChicago, as well as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Li received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1972 and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the 2003 Balzan Prize for Genetics and Evolution, 2009 Mendel Medal, and the HUGO 2008 Chen Award. He was President of SMBE in 2000. His research interests include molecular and genomic evolution, methods for DNA sequence and genomic data analysis, and computational biology.
He is the author of the textbooks Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution (co-authored with Dan Graur), and Molecular Evolution. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed publications. His works have been cited more than 65,000 times with an H-index of 103.
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2019 SMBE Motoo Kimura Lifetime Contribution Award Winner: Wen-Hsiung Li
Congratulations to Dr. Li.