Cheng Li
Assistant Professor
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Climate and Space Research Building
2455 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Research Topics
- Exploration of planets inside and outside of our solar system.
- NASA’s Cassini Mission to Saturn and the Juno Mission to Jupiter.
- Numerical model development. In particular, the planetary atmosphere simulator.
- Radio observation.
- Geophysical Fluid dynamics, including the atmosphere, ocean, and convection powered by the internal heat of a planet.
Personal Website: https://chengcli.io
Education and Positions
University of California, Berkeley, 2019 – 2020
51 Pegasi b Postdoc Fellow
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2017 – 2019
NASA Postdoc Program Fellow
California Institute of Technology, 2011 – 2017
Ph.D. Planetary Science
Peking University, 2007 – 2011
B.S. Atmospheric Science