Guorong Li graduated from Peking University in 2007 with a B.S. degree in Physics. He enrolled as a graduate student in the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the fall of 2008. In 2009 he moved with us to the Louisiana State University. Guorong’s thesis involved the use of scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy and low energy electron diffraction to study the structure/property relationship at the surfaces of layered transition metal compounds. The figure below shows Guorong in the STM laboratory at LSU. Four of his most significant publications as a graduate student are:

• "Role of Antiferromagnetic Ordering in the (1×2) Surface Reconstruction of Ca(Fe_1-xCo_x)₂As₂," Guorong Li, Liangbo Liang, Qing Li, Minghu Pan, V.B. Nascimento, Xiaobo He, A.B. Karki, Yimin Xiong, Vincent Meunier, Rongying Jin, Jiandi Zhang, and E.W. Plummer, Phys. Rev. Letters, 112, 077205 (2014).

• "Atomic-Scale Fingerprint of Mn Dopant at the Surface of Sr₃(Ru_1-xMn_x)O₇," Guorong Li, Qing, Li, Minghu Pan, Biao Hu, Chen Chen, Jing Teng, Zhenyu Diao, Jiandi Zhang, Rongying Jin, & E. W. Plummer, Nature Scientific Reports, 3, 1 (2013).

• "Coupled Structural-Magnetic Antiphase Domain Walls on BaFe₂As₂," Guorong Li, Xiaobo He, Jiandi Zhang, Rongying Jin, A. S. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, D. G. Mandrus, B. C. Sales, and E. W. Plummer, Phys Rev B 86, 060512(R) (2012).

• "Nanoscale Chemical Phase Separation in FeTe_0.55Se_0.45," X. He, Guorong Li, J. Zhang, A. B. Karki, R. Jin, B. C. Sales, A. S. Sefat, M. A. Mcquire, D. Mandrus, and E. W. Plummer, Phys. Rev. B 83, 220502 (2011).

After graduating in 2013, he joined Segate as a Sr. Electric Design Engineer.