Xianfu LU is a Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK. Her recent work has been focusing on the key vulnerabilities and adaptive responses to climate change, both in developing and developed countries, from both science and policy perspectives. Xianfu is also a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report(AR4) due to be published in 2007.

Between 2002 and 2004, Xianfu worked on a UNEP/GEF funded project 'Assessments of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change in Multiple Regions and Sectors'(AIACC), which consists of 24 project teams from developing countries. Her role within this project is to provide scientific support for all the AIACC project teams with respect to the development and application of climate scenarios in climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation assessments. During her secondment (2003~2004)to the International Global Change Institute (IGCI) at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, she also participated in the AIACC research project in the Pacific Islands, responsible for the development of climate and socio-economic scenarios, contributing to the development of a 'second generation' of integrated assessment model.

Before joining the University of East Anglia, Xianfu was a research associate at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies,working on the project: 'Sustainable Development Framework for Developing Countries'. Through her scientific research, she is exploring the possibilities of various future climate scenarios and their potential impacts on socio-economic as well as ecosystem. Xianfu Lu has a Ph.D. in ecology from the Commission for Integrated Survey of Natural Resources at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (1999). Her doctoral dissertation investigated the potential impact of global warming on China's water resources, which are vulnerable to the expected climate changes in the coming century.