Dr. Xi Li is a junior assistant professor at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano. She was awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2025. Her current research focuses on advanced anti-fatigue design strategies for aerospace composite structures, particularly those exhibiting multi-stabilities. She is actively involved in the NABUCCO project, where she investigates the buckling and post-buckling behaviour in stiffened composite panels as well as the development of buckling-driven designs. Dr. Li earned her Ph.D. in 2022 from Delft University of Technology, with a thesis on Unfolding the Early Fatigue Damage Accumulation of Composite Laminates. From 2022 to 2024, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft, focusing on fracture and damage characterization in advanced materials – especially fibre reinforced polymer composites in aerospace structures and wind turbines.

Her research interests include:

• Fatigue damage initiation and accumulation in composite materials
• Buckling-induced non-linear deformation in aerospace structures
• In-situ damage monitoring and diagnostics using advanced techniques
• Deterministic and probabilistic damage modelling approaches

Selected Grants and Awards:

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2025)
• Young researcher Grant, Italian Ministry of University and Research, under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan as part of the European Union's NextGenerationEU program (2025)
• Seal of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship, Politecnico di Milano (2024)

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