Li Ning (; born July 1958) is a

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engineer specializing in

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. He is an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences a ...

(CAE) and serves as deputy director of the Institute of Well-Logging and Remote Sensing, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED).

Biography

Li was born in

Huan County Huan County or Huanxian () is an administrative district in eastern Gansu province, China at the junction of three provinces: Gansu, Shaanxi to the northeast, and Ningxia to the west and northwest. It is under the administration of the prefecture-l ...

Gansu Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...

in July 1958. He secondary studied at Huan County No.1 High School. After the resumption of

National College Entrance Examination The Nationwide Unified Examination for Admissions to General Universities and Colleges (), commonly abbreviated as the Gaokao (), is the annual nationally coordinated undergraduate admission exam in mainland China, held in early June. Despite the ...

, he enrolled at Huadong Petroleum Institute (now

China University of Petroleum The China University of Petroleum (East China) is a national public university located in Qingdao, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education, five major state energy corpora ...

). He obtained a doctor's degree in geophysical logging under the supervision of and Tan Tingdong (). From January 1989 to January 1991 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS). After graduation, he joined the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED). In 2017, he became a visiting professor at the China University of Petroleum. On December 6, 2019, he was haired as a distinguished professor at

Anhui University of Science and Technology The Anhui University of Science and Technology () is a provincial public university in Huainan, Anhui, China. It is affiliated with the Anhui Provincial Government, and co-sponsored by the Ministry of Emergency Management The Ministry of Emerg ...

Honours and awards

* 1992 China Youth Science and Technology Award * November 22, 2019 Member of the

(CAE)

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Li Ning
on the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Ning 1958 births Living people People from Huan County Engineers from Gansu China University of Petroleum alumni Academic staff of Anhui University of Science and Technology Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering