Xue-Mei Li is professor at both EPFL and Imperial College London. Previously, she held a professorship at the University of Warwick and began her academic career at the University of Connecticut (USA) as a tenure-track assistant professor, eventually earning tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2001.
She pursued her MSc and PhD studies at the University of Warwick. Her study was supported by a Sino-British Friendship Scholarship, a scheme established in 1986 (see Mrs. Thatcher’s speech and in this memo ). She was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1996, allowing her to visit the University of Bochum and the University of Bonn. In 1997, she held an MSRI research fellowship in Berkeley, California, participating in the MSRI Stochastic Analysis year. She was awarded standard research grants from the US National Science Foundation in 1996 (duration: 2 years), in 1998 (duration: 3 years), and in 2000 (duration: 3 years). These were awarded by the Probability Program and the Geometric Analysis program. Additionally, she was the recipient of a junior faculty research fellowship and several reseasrch grants from UConn. Upon returning to the U.K., she was awarded a senior Royal Society Research Fellowship and research grants from EPSRC. She has been recently awarded a grant from the Swiss Science Foundation, and has received supports from SwissMap.