Chuxuan Li

Posdoctoral researcher at UCLA

Ph.D. from Northwestern University, IL, USA

M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, USA

I am a numerical modeler working at the intersection of hydrology, geomorphology, meteorology, climate science, and natural hazards.

About Me

Hello! My name is Chuxuan Li. Welcome to my personal website. I'm currently a postdoc researcher working with Drs. Gilles Peltzer and Seulgi Moon at UCLA. At UCLA, I use InSAR to detect the tectonic changes associated with permafrost in the Tibet region and use modeling to study the possible hydrological pathways contributing to the InSAR-observed changes.

I was born and raised in southern China. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Marine Sciences from Sun Yat-sen University, a top 10 university in China. Driven by a deep interest in Earth science, I went abroad and pursued further studies in the U.S. From 2017-2020, I studied the climate variability and predictability of atmospheric rivers (ARs) over the North Atlantic using large-ensemble climate simulations at University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. For that, I received my Master's degree in 2020.

Four years later, I received my Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Northwestern University in June 2024. There, I worked with Dr. Daniel Horton to use numerical modeling to study AR-triggered hydrogeomorphic extreme events such as landslides and post-wildfire debris flows along the U.S. west coast.