Chuxuan Li
Posdoctoral researcher at UCLA
Ph.D. from Northwestern University, IL, USA
M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, 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.
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.
In August of 2024, I started my postdoc at UCLA. Next step after postdoc - Still on the lookout!
My full CV can be found here.
I'm interested in using state-of-the-science techniques and tools to study extreme events across the ocean, atmosphere, and land surface.
Climate variability & change
Extreme weather events
Land surface processes
Wildfire burn scar hydrology
Numerical modeling
Statistical methods
Remote Sensing (InSAR)
Machine learning