Li started her PhD at the Department of Population Health Sciences in 2019. She is involved in the South London Stroke Register (SLSR) study and is supervised by Dr Yanzhong Wang and Dr O'Connell, Matthew. Li is interested in stroke recurrence, and her PhD is to investigate the risk factors of stroke recurrence among first-ever stroke patients and develop a prediction model of stroke recurrence. Before joining the stroke research group, Li got her Master's degree in Public Health at Peking University, Beijing, China, where she spent three years studying preventive medicine and nutritional epidemiology.