Prof. Xue-Mei Li

Xue-Mei Li is currently a professor at 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, supported by a scholarship from the Sino-British Friendship Scholarship, established in 1986 as recorded in Mrs. Thatcher’s speech and in this memo. She received funding from the SNF through research grants supported by the Probability Program and the Geometric Analysis program, with durations of two years in 1996, three years in 1998, and three years in 2000. Additionally, she was a recipient of a junior faculty research fellowship and several other grants from UConn. She was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1996, during which she worked at 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. Upon returning to the U.K., she received a senior Royal Society Research Fellowship and research grants from EPSRC.