Lili Xia

Lili Xia

Co-Director of the Rutgers Impact Studies of Climate Intervention (RISCI) lab  

Rutgers University 

Lili Xia is Co-Director of the Rutgers Impact Studies of Climate Intervention (RISCI) lab, an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, and a Staff Scientist at the DEGREES Initiative. She received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Rutgers in 2014 and has conducted research in the RISCI lab since then. Her work focuses on climate impacts, particularly the interactions among food systems, public health, and climate change. She currently studies the potential consequences of two extreme climate scenarios: stratospheric aerosol intervention and nuclear war.