Dr. Chao Li
Office
Email: chao.li .at. mpimet.mpg.de 
Phone: +49-40-41173-458
Fax: +49-40-41173-298
Room no. 125
Mailing Address
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundesstr. 53
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Department
The Ocean in the Earth System
Research Group
Director's research group
Research Interests
- Future climate changes and their mitigation strategy
- Internal variability and forced response in climate system
- Oceanic circulation in climate system
- Sea-ice changes and their impact on mid-latitude climate
- Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
- Nonlinear thresholds in the climate system
Curriculum vitae
Research scientist
01/2015-present: Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
01/2013-12/2014: KlimaCampus Hamburg - Cluster of Excellence CliSAP, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
07/2012-12/2013: Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Ph.D.
03/2008-06/2012: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and University of Hamburg, Germany
Ph.D. thesis: "Long-term stability and adjustment toward equilibrium in a future warm climate"
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jochem Marotzke and Dr. Jin-Song von Storch
03/2008-06/2012: Student of the IMPRS on Earth System Modeling
College/University
05/2006-02/2008: Research assistant, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
08/2004-06/2007: M. Sc.(Physical Oceanography), South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
08/2000-06/2004: B. Sc.(Atmospheric Science), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Born
Hubei, China