Resume:

Professor Dr. Weidong Li is currently the deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Ancient Ceramics of Culture and Tourism Ministry, and the deputy director of the Key Research Base of Ancient Ceramics of the State Administration of Cultural Relics. Over the years, she has been devoting to the research and conservation of silicate-based cultural relics, such as ancient ceramics, earthen sites, murals, painted pottery etc. Remarkable achievements have been made in standard formulation, database construction, coloring mechanism, degradation mechanism and so on, which has laid a solid foundation for the promotion and inheritance of China's excellent ceramic culture. She has won one first prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, one second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, one first prize of Twelfth Five-Year Plan Cultural Relics Protection Science and Technological Innovation Award.She has made important breakthroughs in the coloring mechanism of ancient famous ceramics (Ru Porcelain, Jun Porcelain, Jian Bowl, etc.), the deterioration mechanism of shipwreck/unearthed ancient ceramics, and the restoration of traditional crafts of ancient ceramics. A series of cooperative studies have been carried out with scientists at home and abroad. She organized the International Symposium on Ancient Ceramic Science and Technology in 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2022. She is currently the vice president of Shanghai Ancient Ceramics Science and Technology Research Association, the vice director of the National Engineering Research Center for the Protection of Ancient Murals, the editorial board member of Advances in Archaeomaterials magazine.

Main research directions: 

1. Archaeometry of ancient ceramics

2. Research and conservation of fragile silicate-based cultural relics

3. Coloring mechanism of famous ancient porcelains

4. Deterioration mechanism of shipwreck/unearthed ancient ceramics

5. Ancient ceramics database and its application.

6. Restoration of traditional technologies of ancient ceramics