Dr Zhenhai Li is a Professor in Remote Sensing of Shandong University of Science and Technology with twelve years of research experience in agriculture remote sensing and crop growth models. He has leaded and participated in 6 NSFC grants, 3 the UK-China Newton Agri-Tech project, 2 China-ESA Dragon4&5 Programs, 1 the National Key Technology R&D Program, 1 SDNSFC, and 1 BNSF grant etc.

• Sep 2021 – Present: Professor, College of Geodesy and Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology

• Jan 2017 – Aug 2018: Research associate, School of Engineering, Newcastle University

• Aug 2016 – Jul 2021: Assistant Professor, Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, BAAFS (Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences).

• Sep 2012 – Jun 2016: Visiting Ph.D. candidate in Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, BAAFS (Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences).

• Sep 2011 – Jun 2016: PhD in Agriculture Remote Sensing & Information Technology of Zhejiang University 

• Sep 2007 – Jun 2011: BSc in Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University

·    Research on mechanism and spatio-temporal model of wheat yield prediction by integrating multi-source heterogeneous data, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) programme, Jan 2023 – Dec 2026 (Leading PI)

·    Radiative transfer model of crop nitrogen and diagnosis based on remote sensing, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong (SDNSFC) programme, Jan 2023 – Dec 2025 (Leading PI)

·    Application Of Sino-Eu Optical Data Into Agronomic Models To Predict Crop Performance And To Monitor And Forecast Crop Pests And Diseases, The China-ESA Dragon 5 program, Jul 2020 – Dec 2025 (Co-PI)

·    Predicting Winter Wheat Quality by Integrating of Remote Sensing Assimilation and Weather Forecast into the DSSAT Model, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) programme, Jan 2018 – Dec 2020 (Leading PI)

·    Predicting Grain Quality in Winter Wheat by integrating Nitrogen Raditive Transfer model and DSSAT Model, Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jan 2017 – Dec 2018 (Leading PI)

·    PAFiC: Precision Agriculture for Family-farms in China, the UK-China Newton Agri-Tech project, May 2016 – Apr 2019.

·    Sentinels of wheat, the UK-China Newton Agri-Tech project, Oct 2017 – Apr 2019.

·    Double-scale crop nitrogen prediction based on assimilation of crop growth model and remote sensing data, the NSFS programme, Jan 2015 – Dec 2018

·    Editorial Board Member for Frontiers in Plant Science (2021-Present)

·    Editorial Board Member for Water (2021-Present)

·    Editorial Board Member for Smart Agriculture (2021-Present)

·    Committee Member for Agricultural Modeling and Simulation Committee, Chinese simulation society (2019 – Present)

·    Guest Editor for Special Issues of MDPI (2022-Present)

·    Guest Editor for Special Issues of Remote Sensing (2017-2018)