Lior Greenspoon is a PhD student researching global ecology under the supervision of Prof. Ron Milo in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. She has a dual BSc in Computer Science and Geology from Ben Gurion University of the Negev and an MSc in Computational Ecology from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

In her PhD work, Lior uses data-driven computational methods to answer key questions about our biosphere. She currently focuses on quantifying wildlife in the Anthropocene - the age of global, significant human impacts on climate and ecosystems. Most recently, Lior estimated the global biomass of all wild mammals, providing a first-of-its-kind comprehensive census that can serve as a benchmark for human impacts. She is now working on expanding this ‘snapshot’ and estimating the change in wild mammal biomass over the past few centuries, as well as providing global estimates for other taxa, such as all birds.

Lior volunteers in various organizations; she has been an outdoor instructor at an NGO dedicated to the empowerment of children with disabilities, and served as a tutor at the African Refugee Development Center. Prior to her academic studies in Israel, she spent a year studying Chinese in Chengdu, China.