Xiaoli Lu (PhD, Utrecht University) is Tenured Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, Associate Director of Center for Crisis Management Research, and Executive Director of the Behavior and Data Science Lab. Lu has published widely on topics of crisis and disaster management, and organizational issues. His recent book is Managing uncertainty in crisis: exploring the impact of institutionalization on organizational sense making. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Emergency Management, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing Social Science Foundation and Beijing Earthquake Administration. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, and serves on the editorial boards of 8 journals: Disasters, International Journal of Public Sector Management, Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, Progress in Safety and Security, Operations Research and Management Science(in Chinese) , Journal of Catastrophology (in Chinese), Safety and Environmental Engineering (in Chinese), and Journal of Risk, Disaster & Crisis Research (in Chinese), and the boards of two societies, including the China Society of Emergency Management, and the Chinese Public Administration Society. He is also the co-founders of the Academic (formerly Youth) Sub-forum and Summer School affiliated to the Forum of Fifty on Emergency Management. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a UNESCO Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex. Lu’s current research interests include sensemaking of bureaucrats at both strategic and operational levels, video method in organizational analysis, and field experiments in governmental settings.
Research Area
Crisis Management, Organization Studies, Multimodal Analysis
Education
Ph.D.
2011-2014 Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
2007-2011 Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands
2008-2009 Visiting Research Associate, Stephenson Disaster Research Institute, Louisiana State University, USA
M.Sc.
2007 Management Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
B.Sc.
2005 Construction Engineering Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Teaching
Public Administration (MPA)
Public Organization and Management (IMPA)
Qualitative Research Methods II (PhD, co-teach, sessions on field studies)
Theories of Emergency Management (PhD)
Fundamentals of Organization and Management (Bachelor, co-teach)
Theories of Emergency Management (MOOC, co-teach)
Awards
2024 Finalist for MOC Denny Gioia Award for Best Qualitative Paper, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, Academy of Management Meeting 2024 （with Tiancheng Cao）
2020.01 Science Research Famous Achievement Award in Higher Institution
2019.12 Youth Academic Leader of Emergency Management in Beijing
2019.09/2022.12 “Public Administration” (with Wenhao Cheng, Guosheng Deng, Wei Zhong), Awarded the University-level Benchmark of Postgraduate Courses in 2019 and 2022
2019.07 Tsinghua University Best Master Thesis Advisor
2017.12 “Public Crisis Management” (with Zongchao Peng, Lan Xue, Feng Cao, Xinchuan Liu, Baoxia Liu), Awarded National-level Massive Online Open Course
2016.12-2019.11 Tang Scholar
2015.12 Youth Talent, Beijing Outstanding Talent Training Program
2015.10 Nominee for the 2014 Dutch/Flemish Van Poelje Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Public Administration
2009.06 The 1st Place Winner for the Annual Hazards and Disaster Student Paper Competition in the 34th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Application Workshop, Natural Hazards Center at University of Colorado, Broomfield, Colorado, USA
Professional Affiliation
2025.1-2028.12 Editorial Board Member Operations Research and Management Science(in Chinese)
2024.10- Associate Editor Progress in Safety and Security (TU Delft OPEN journal )
2024.4-2027.3 Editorial Board Member Safety and Environmental Engineering (in Chinese)
2024.1-2028.12 Editorial Board Member Journal of Catastrophology (in Chinese)
2023.02- Youth Board Member Chinese Public Administration Society
2023.01- Associate Editor Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
2022.08- Editorial Board Member International Journal of Public Sector Management
2021.05- Editorial Board Member Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
2020.07- Editorial Board Member Disasters
2016.02- Steering Committee Member The 1st, 2nd & 3rd Conference of International Network of Disaster Studies
2017.08- Editorial Board Member Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
2015.06- Editorial Board Member Journal of Risk, Disaster & Crisis Research (in Chinese)
2015.12- Board Member China Society of Emergency Management
2014.11- Co-founder Youth Sub-Forum and the Summer School affiliated to the Forum of Fifty on Emergency Management
