Jianli Wang is a Professor in the College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, China and a senior visiting fellow at University of New South Wales at Canberra, Australia.

Jianli obtained his Bachelor of Science (1991) from Shandong University, China. His Master of Science (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) were received from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science. He has worked at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China (1997-2001), University of Zaragoza, Spain (2001-2002), and Tohoku University, Japan (2002-2003) before moving to Australia to work at the University of New South Wales (2003-2010) and University of Wollongong (2010-2017). In 2018, he joined Jilin University as a Professor.

Jianli has published 230 articles in material science and applied physics. His current research interest is focused on the experimental investigation of the crystallography and structure–property relationships of advanced functional materials by employing X-ray and neutron diffraction technique, Mössbauer spectroscopy and magnetic methods.