Waterloo Engineering alumnus Sabrina Li (BASc ’15, environmental engineering) has been named as one of Forbes’ 2022 picks for Europe’s Top 30 under 30 list in science and health care.
She is among 300 honourees cited for their accomplishments in 10 categories.
Li, an assistant professor at the University of Nottingham, uses data science to understand how social and environmental factors affect the spread of disease and contribute to health inequalities.
She was the first author of a paper in BMJ Global Health that found low-income and non-white populations in Brazil were more likely to die from COVID-19.
During her undergraduate engineering degree, Li specialized in water resources. Li completed a master's degree from Waterloo in geography, and a PhD from the University of Oxford in the School of Geography and the Environment.