李建，研究员，博士生导师，现为中国气象科学研究院气候系统研究所所长。2002 年 6 月本科毕业于南京气象学院大气科学专业，2007 年毕业于中科院大气物理研究所大气科学专业，获博士学位。主要从事降水精细化特征、地形对降水影响、数值模式降水模拟改进等方面的研究。主持国家自然科学基金重点项目、优秀青年科学基金项目和科技部重大专项重点项目，为中国气象科学研究院多尺度模式研发团队高分辨率海陆气冰耦合关键技术方向首席，任中国气象学会高原气象委员会副主任委员。曾获得中央国家机关青年五四奖章，入选中国气象局首批青年英才，入选中国气象局科技领军人才。

教育及工作经历:
2007.5- 今      中国气象科学研究院 气候系统研究所

学术兼职：
《气象学报》、《暴雨灾害》、《Journal of Meteorological Research》编委

代表性论文论著：
Li, J., R. C. Yu, T. J. Zhou, and B. Wang, 2005: Why is there an Early Spring Cooling Shift Downstream of the Tibetan Plateau? J. Climate, 18 (22), 4660-4668. 
Li, J., R. C. Yu, and J. J. Wang, 2008: Diurnal variations of summer precipitation in Beijing. Chinese Science Bulletin, 53(12), 1933-1936. 
Li, J., R. C. Yu, and T. J. Zhou, 2008: Teleconnection between NAO and climate downstream of the Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Climate, 21(18), 4680-4690. 
Li, J., R. C. Yu, and T. J. Zhou, 2008: Seasonal variation of the diurnal cycle of rainfall in the southern contiguous China, Journal of Climate, 21(22), 6036-6043. 
Li, J., R.C. Yu, W.H. Yuan, H.M. Chen, 2011: Changes in duration-related characteristics of late-summer precipitation over eastern China in the past 40 years. J. Climate, 24(21), 5683-5690. 
Li, J., R.C. Yu, W.H. Yuan, H.M. Chen, 2011: Early spring dry spell in the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 89(1), 1–13. 
Li, J., R. Yu, W. Sun, 2013: Duration and Seasonality of Hourly Extreme Rainfall in the Central Eastern China. Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 27(6), 799–807. 
Li, J., R. Yu, 2014: A Method to Linearly Evaluate Rainfall Frequency–Intensity Distribution. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 53(4), 928-934. 
Li, J., R. Yu, 2014: Characteristics of Cold Season Rainfall over the Yungui Plateau. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 53(7), 1750-1759. 
Li, J., R. Yu, W. Yuan, H. Chen, W. Sun, Y. Zhang, 2015: Precipitation over East Asia simulated by NCAR CAM5 at different horizontal resolutions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 7(2), 774-790. DOI 10.1002/2014MS000414 
Li, J., T. Chen, N. Li, 2017: Diurnal Variation of Summer Precipitation across the Central Tian Shan Mountains. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 56(6), 1537-1550. 
Li, J., 2017: Hourly station-based precipitation characteristics over the Tibetan Plateau. Int. J. Climatol. doi:10.1002/joc.5281.