Hui Li obtained his PhD from the Nanjing University, China in 2005. He was a postdoctoral fellow, research associate, and senior research associate from 2005-2010 at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2010, he joined the faculty at the Jilin University, China. He is now a Tang Au-Chin Scholar at the College of Chemistry, Jilin University and an adjunct professor of the University of Waterloo. He was awarded the Tang Au-Chin Young Investigator Award in Theoretical Chemistry (Chinese Chemical Society). His research interests lie in potential energy surfaces, ro-vibrational spectroscopy and dynamics of small molecules, clusters and solutions.
Frederick R. W. McCourt achieved his PhD from the University of British Columbia, Canada. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. He was an assistant, associate, and full professor of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and is now a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1973. His research interests include the transport properties, interaction potential energy functions, and potential energy surfaces of gases. He has more than 150 book and journal publications in this field.