Ying Li received her Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013, mentored by Dr. Jiulin Du, studied the physiological function of microglia in zebrafish. She continued her postdoc training at Harvard University with Dr. Catherine Dulac, studied the neuronal representation of social cues in the medial amygdala neurons of behaving mice. In 2019, she started her own lab at CIBR.