Wenli Ni

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Biography

Wenli Ni is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests lie in understanding how climate change affects health in both children and adults, as well as the overlapping impacts of climate change and air pollution.

She obtained her PhD in environmental epidemiology from Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich in Germany. During her doctoral journey, Ni investigated the effects of air temperature on cardiovascular disease, focusing on underlying mechanisms such as DNA methylation, proteomics, and epigenetic aging. As a visiting PhD researcher at Karolinska Institute in Sweden, she examined the associations between air temperature, air pollution, and myocardial infarction hospitalizations using comprehensive Swedish nationwide registry data.

Throughout her career, she has remained passionately committed to advancing research in climate-related health, continuously contributing to knowledge in this critical field.

Publications

• Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and epigenetic age acceleration in children.

  Ni W, Bozack AK, Rifas-Shiman SL, Oken E, Hivert MF, Nassikas NJ, Sordillo J, Perng W, Gold DR, Cardenas A, Rice MB. Am J Epidemiol 2025 Jan 14

• Associations of Personal Hourly Exposures to Air Temperature and Pollution with Resting Heart Rate in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

  Ni W, Nassikas NJ, Fiffer M, Synn AJ, Baker N, Coull B, Kang CM, Koutrakis P, Rice MB. Environ Sci Technol 2024 Oct 15

• Short-Term Effects of Lower Air Temperature and Cold Spells on Myocardial Infarction Hospitalizations in Sweden.

  Ni W, Stafoggia M, Zhang S, Ljungman P, Breitner S, Bont J, Jernberg T, Atar D, Agewall S, Schneider A. J Am Coll Cardiol 2024 Sep 24

• Effects of Short- And Medium-Term Exposures to Lower Air Temperature on 71 Novel Biomarkers of Subclinical Inflammation: Results from the KORA F4 Study.

  Ni W, Breitner S, Nikolaou N, Wolf K, Zhang S, Peters A, Herder C, Schneider A. Environ Sci Technol 2023 08 22

• Associations between medium- and long-term exposure to air temperature and epigenetic age acceleration.

  Ni W, Nikolaou N, Ward-Caviness CK, Breitner S, Wolf K, Zhang S, Wilson R, Waldenberger M, Peters A, Schneider A. Environ Int 2023 08