Defeng Li - Curriculum Vitae#

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. in Secondary Education (Second Language Education) (1997), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada（1997）
  
• MA in English Language and Literature (Translation Studies) (by research) (1990), Nanjing Normal University, China (1990）
  
• B.A. in English Language and Literature (1987), Nanjing Normal University, China（1987)

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Distinguished Professor in Translation Studies & Associate Dean & Director, Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (2022- ), University of Macau, Macau SAR （2022-）
  
• Professor in Translation Studies & Associate Dean & Director, Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (2020-2022 ), University of Macau, Macau SAR（2020-2022）
  
• Professor in Translation Studies & Director, Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (2014-2020 ), University of Macau, Macau SAR
  
• Reader in Translation Studies & Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies (09/2007-12/2013), Centre for Translation Studies, University of London, United Kingdom（09/2007-12/2013）
  
• Associate Professor (08/2002-08/2007), Department of Translation & Director of MA Translation Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  
• Assistant Professor (08/1997-08/2002), Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong（08/1997-08/2002）

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Brain and Language, neurocognitive studies of simultaneous interpreting, cross-lingual and cross-modal language processing, corpus and data-mining in translation studies, descriptive translation studies, data-based empirical research methodologies

AWARDS AND ADJUNCT (HONORARY) APPOINTMENTS

• 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