B. Larry Li is Professor of Ecology and Directors of International Center for Ecology and Sustainability, and U.S. Department of Agriculture-China MOST Joint Research Center for AgroEcology and Sustainability at University of California-Riverside with a broad interdisciplinary background and experience in mathematical, statistical and computational modeling applications in ecological and environmental studies. He published more than 290 refereed journal articles, 30 book chapters and proceedings papers, and 11 books or edited special issues. Among his many honors and awards, he was elected to be Honorary Member of the Scientific Council of Russian Academy of Sciences (2005), IHE Fellow (1988), AAAS Fellow (2006), DeTao Master of Ecology (2013), Honorary Director-General of the Three Gorges Institute of Ecology and the Environment (Chinese Academy of Sciences) (2018), and received 2015 Prigogine Gold Medal (only one leading scientist per year to be awarded in ecological systems internationally), and 2022 CAST-USA Excellence Outstanding Innovation Award in New York. He is also Founding Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Ecological Complexity (Elsevier) and Journal of Arid Land (Springer Nature).  He chaired and co-chaired the successful Beijing EcoSummit 2007, EcoSummit 2012, Columbus, Ohio and EcoSummit 2023 in Gold Coast, Australia. He has been chairing the EcoSummit Governing Board since 2016. 

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2015获普利高津金奖 (Prigogine Gold Medal, 该奖有生态诺贝尔奖之称, 每年只表彰一位对世界生态学做出卓越贡献的科学家, 他是全球第12位获奖人), 2022获卓越创新奖;“生态复杂性”这一新生态学分支学科的奠基人, 美国加利福尼亚大学河滨分校生态学终身教授，国际生态与可持续发展研究中心主任，美国农业部-中国科技部农业生态与可持续发展联合研究中心共同主任;《Ecological Complexity》(Elsevier)创刊主编，《Journal of Arid Land》(Springer Nature)联合创刊主编；美国人类生态研究院院士 (IHE Fellow)，俄罗斯科学院外籍院士，美国科学促进会会士(AAAS Fellow), 德稻生态学大师, 世界生态高峰理事会(EcoSummit)主席. 在长达四十余年的学术生涯里，在包括Nature、Science、PNAS 等权威性学术刊物发表论文290 余篇, Google Scholar截至2022年10月的H指数=60. 主持、参与和指导了美欧和中国多层次、多尺度智慧生态城市、乡村振兴、生态修复和生态工程的规划与设计。还在国内担任了如中国科协海智专家、中国科学院名誉所长及相关政府和机构的首席生态顾问、讲席或名誉教授和学术委员会主任等职.