Li Lei, Associate Research Fellow and Master's Supervisor, is a Ganjiang Young Scholar under Nanchang University's“215 Talent Project”and a Visiting Ph.D. at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He conducted postdoctoral research at Fudan University and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Germany. Primary research focuses on aquatic plants and lake ecology, with particular emphasis on:

- Responses, adaptations, and feedback mechanisms of aquatic plants to environmental changes in freshwater ecosystems

- Interactions between aquatic plants and other biotic components

- Aquatic vegetation restoration and management

• Sep 2011-Apr 2012 Visiting Ph.D., University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Sep 2009-Jun 2013 Ph.D., School of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northeast Normal University
• Sep 2007–Jun 2009- Successive Postgraduate and Doctoral student, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University

• [1] Nov 2022-Nov 2023 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany
• [2] Dec 2019-Present Associate Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University
• [3] Dec 2014-Nov 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University
• [4] Jul 2013-Dec 2019 Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Life Science, Nanchang University

• [1]Jan 2025 – Dec 2028: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Impacts of variations in lake dissolved organic carbon concentrations on submerged macrophytes, periphyton, and their interactions
• [2]Jan 2020 – Dec 2023: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Impacts and mechanisms of invasive crayfish on submerged macrophyte communities in Poyang Lake
• [3]Dec 2018 – Dec 2022: Sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, The evolution of food web structure and resource effects in two major river-connected lakes: Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake
• [4]Jan 2016 – Dec 2017: China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Effects of water level changes on reproductive strategies of Vallisneria spinulosa in a large river-connected lake, Poyang Lake
• [5]Jan 2015 – Dec 2017: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Effects of flooding depth and duration on reproductive allocation and vegetative propagules of Vallisneria spinulosa