Defeng Li#
| Membership Number: | 7047 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Affiliated section(s): | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://fah.um.edu.mo/defeng-li/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4151-9151 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Distinguished Professor & Associate Dean & Director, Centre for Cognition and Brain Sciences & Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, University of Macau, Macau SAR
- 2020 - 2022 Professor & Associate Dean & Director, Centre for Cognition and Brain Sciences & Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, University of Macau, Macau SAR
- 2014 - 2020 Professor in Translation Studies & Director, Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition University of Macau, Macau SAR
- 2007 - 2013 Reader in Translation Studies & Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies, Centre for Translation Studies, University of London, United Kingdom
- 2002 - 2007 Associate Professor Department of Translation & Director of MA Translation Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- 1997 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Data-based empirical research methodologies
- Cross-lingual and cross-modal language processing
- Descriptive translation studies
- Brain and language corpus and data-mining in translation studies
- Neurocognitive studies of simultaneous interpreting
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, United Kingdom
- 2020 Fellow, Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL), United Kingdom
- 2024 Awardee, Huanghe Distinguished Professor Program of Hunan China
- 2023 Excellence in Social Sciences Research, Shandong, China
- 2021 Awardee, Furong Distinguished Professor Program of Hunan China
- 2021 Excellence in Research, Shandong Institutions of Higher Education
- 2024 Awardee, Bayu Distinguished Professor Program of Chongqing China
- 2017 Fellow, China National Committee for MTI Education
- 2014 Excellence in Social Sciences Research, Shandong, China
- 2014 Recipient of “Distinguished Professor from Overseas” Program of Hunan Province, PR China
- 2013 Excellence in Research, Shandong Institutions of Higher Education
- 2011 Awardee, Shanghai International Talents Program
- 2001 Awardee, Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Award
