Zhi LÜ is a conservationist and professor at the School of Life Sciences at Peking University. LÜ is also the founder of the Shan Shui Conservation Center. She is experienced in cross-disciplinary researches on nature conservation and human sustainable development. She conducted field researches on giant pandas and snow leopard in western China and has expanded her work to promote biodiversity in cities and farmlands in recent years. She is also deeply engaged in conservation practices especially community-based initiatives. For years she devoted to bridging between research and practice to better understand the interlinks between the nature and people, and to provide empirical and practical solutions for their coexistence.

As a Berggruen Fellow, she will actively participate in the center's discussions on co-becoming, bringing her perspectives based on practices, and explore drivers behind the human-nature coexistence in different contexts and their implication to a shared the future for all beings.