Lili Xia is co-director of the Rutgers Impact Studies of Climate Intervention (RISCI) lab. She received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at Rutgers in 2014, and has been working as a postdoc and now Research Associate 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 focus on two future climate scenarios, stratospheric aerosol intervention and nuclear war.