Wenli Bi is an Assistant Professor at Physics Department, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis working with Prof. James Schilling on studies of studies of magnetism and superconductivity at extreme pressures. Before moving to UAB, she worked as a postdoc and then staff scientist at the nuclear resonant scattering beamlines of the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.