Hi, I'm Funing Li! 

I'm a postdoctoral associate at MIT EAPS since September 2023, working with Professor Talia Tamarin-Brodsky. My current research focuses on mid-latitude extreme temperature and convection, as part of the MIT Climate Grand Challenge Project. 

I have a broad interest in extreme weather (e.g., severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, heat, and precipitation), particularly focusing on their geographical and climatic drivers. I combine simple theories and multi-complexity climate models to probe the formation (why do they look the way they look today?) and evolution (how extreme can they become as climate changes?) of extreme weather phenomena on Earth.