Lili Xia is co-director of RISCI. She received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at Rutgers in 2014, and has been working as a postdoc and now Assistant Research Professor in the RISCI lab for her entire time at Rutgers. She is interested in climate impacts, particularly the interactions between vegetation and climate changes. Her research focuses on two future climate scenarios, stratospheric aerosol intervention and nuclear war.