Bio

Yunfei Li is a PhD student at IRES under the supervision of Dr. Simon Donner in the Climate and Coastal Ecosystems Lab. Her research primarily focuses on climate change engagement, aiming to better understand how individuals and communities perceive and react to climate change impacts and exploring the influential drivers. More broadly, she is interested in studying people’s attitudes and behaviors towards environment and sustainability, in order to effectively engage diverse audiences in coping with complex socio-ecological challenges we currently face.

Yunfei is from Beijing China, where she completed her Bachelor degree at Tsinghua University in 2020, majoring in Environmental Engineering. She then received her MSc in Environmental Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before coming to IRES in 2024, Yunfei worked as a sustainability engineer in Schneider Electric China to drive end-to-end supply chain sustainable transformation with innovative strategies.