University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

• Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences, 2015

Peking University, Beijing, China

• M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, 2009

• B.S. in Physics, 2006

• Polar ice sheets and sea ice

• Numerical modeling of the cryosphere

• Paleoclimate and climate change

• Earth system modeling

School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

• Associate Professor (Tenure Track), 2020/10 - present

Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amerst, MA

• Postdoc Research Associate, 2019/08-2020/09

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

• Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Postdoc Research Associate, 2018/02-2019/07

Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

• Postdoc Research Associate, 2015/01-2018/01

Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

• Graduate Research Associate, 2009/09-2014/12

• National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2023YFF0805201, Climate tipping points: mechanisms, impacts, and response, 01/2024–12/2027, Participant.

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University "Deep Blue" Project, SL2023MS015, Feedback mechanisms of melting ice sheets under climatic warming, 01/2024-12/2025, Principle Investigator.

• Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, 22ZR1430500, Future changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet and climate feedbacks simulated in a two-way coupled ice sheet-climate model, 04/2022–03/2025, Principle Investigator.

• Li, D., R. M. DeConto, D. Pollard and Y. Hu (2024) Competing climate feedbacks of ice sheet freshwater discharge in a warming world. Nature Communications 15, 5178, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49604-3.

• Li, D., R. M. DeConto and D. Pollard (2023) Climate model differences contribute deep uncertainty in future Antarctic ice loss. Science Advances 9, 7, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add7082.

• Li, D. (2022) Physical processes and feedbacks obscuring the future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 1, 4, doi:10.1016/j.geogeo.2022.100084.

• DeConto, R. M., D. Pollard, R. B. Alley, I. Velicogna, E. Gasson, N. Gomez, S. Sadai, A. Condron, D. M. Gilford, E. Ashe, R. E. Kopp, D. Li and A. Dutton (2021) The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea level rise from Antarctica. Nature 593, 83–89.

• Liu, Y., P. Liu, D. Li, Y. Peng, and Y. Hu (2021) Influence of Dust on the Initiation of Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth Events. Journal of Climate, 34(16), 6673–6689.

• Li, D., J. Yuan and R. E. Kopp (2020) Escalating global exposure to compound heat-humidity extremes with warming. Environmental Research Letters, 15(6), 064003.

• Li, D., R. Zhang and T. R. Knutson (2018) Comparison of mechanisms for low-frequency variability of summer Arctic sea ice in three coupled models. Journal of Climate, 31(3), 1205-1226.

• Li, D., R. Zhang and T. R. Knutson (2017) On the discrepancy between observed and CMIP5 multi-model simulated Barents Sea winter sea ice decline. Nature Communications, 8(1), 1-7.

• Abbot, D.S., A. Voigt, D. Li, G. Le Hir, R. T. Pierrehumbert, M. Branson, D. Pollard and D. D. B. Koll (2013) Robust elements of Snowball Earth atmospheric circulation and oases for life. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118(12), 6017-6027.

• Li, D. and R. T. Pierrehumbert (2011) Sea glacier flow and dust transport on Snowball Earth. Geophysical Research Letters, 38(17).

• Hu, Y., D. Li, and J. Liu (2007) Abrupt seasonal variation of the ITCZ and the Hadley circulation. Geophysical research letters, 34(18).

Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, Associate Editor, 2024-01 - Present.