Dr Mengyu Li is a Horizon Fellow, ARC DECRA Fellow, Senior Lecturer at Integrated Sustainability Analysis, the School of Physics, the University of Sydney. Mengyu has an interdisciplinary background in engineering and sustainability. Mengyu’s research focuses on quantitative sustainability assessment of the interactions of societies and economies with ecosystems and resources at local, national, and global scales. Mengyu develops and applies concepts and research involving interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, engineering, mathematics, environmental and social science with the ultimate aim to assure both human and planetary well-being. Mengyu devises methodologies and conducts nationally and internationally significant research into low-carbon energy production, environmental and social footprints of consumption, future environmental and resource scenarios, and the impacts on production and consumption systems of potential future disasters.