Research Professor and Director of Future Materials Design Research Centre, The Future Laboratory, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China. He is engaged in research of biomedical materials, lightweight fiber-reinforced composites and advanced ceramics.

Professor Le was admitted to the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1985 majoring in inorganic non-metallic materials, received a bachelor’s degree of engineering in 1989, and received a doctorate in engineering in March 1994. Prior to returning to Tsinghua University, he joined the University of Surrey in 1996, then the University of Cambridge in 1997 as a postdoctoral researcher. He was promoted to Senior Research Associate at Cambridge in 2000. He became a lecturer at the University of Dundee in 2005, then an associate professor at Plymouth University in 2011 and then professor at the University of Derby in 2015. He has led or participated in about twenty research projects funded by EU, EPSRC and Innovate UK and published over 120 scientific papers. Professor Le became a Member of Tribology Group Committee of the Institution of the Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) In March 2015, Fellow of the Institution of Materials Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) in July 2018, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) in October 2018 and Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He was awarded the Best Paper Award by the Journal of Tribology of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2003, the Best Presentation Certificate in the 2nd International Conference on Materials and Design in 2020 (MatDes2020) and the Silver Medal for National Inventions Exhibition in 2021.