Mengmeng Sun received her PhD in History of Science and Technology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2018, with a dissertation on the changes of agenda for climate science, titled From the Ice Age Prediction to the Global Warming Hypothesis: Research on the Changes of Agenda for Climate Science (1960–1979). As a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, she is currently working on a new project that focuses on different ideas about climate in different cultures. With this research she expects to find the roots of different attitudes on climate from cultural perspectives.