Li Li is a professor at the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS). His primary interest is climate change history across time-scales ranging from decades to millions of years. He is particularly concerned with how climate change and human activities will affect the eventual function of our earth system. After receiving his PhD in Quaternary geology in 1999, Li joined the State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology (LLGQ) and then the newly established IEECAS. Over the past 20 years, his work has ranged from the paleo-climate variation reconstruction with loess-paleosol-red clay sequences to global multi-scale monsoon dynamics. He is also the leader of a department responsible for international science and technological cooperation in IEECAS. In recent years, Li has contributed to spreading awareness of the Anthropocene concept in China through organizing the Anthropocene branch of the Geological Society of China, promoting research into Anthropocene markers, as well as the highlighting evidence of the Anthropocene’s impact upon various geomorphic units in China.