Lilis Mulyani adalah Peneliti di Pusat Riset Masyarakat dan Budaya Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN, eks-LIPI) sejak tahun 2000. Menyelesaikan pendidikan S1 Hukum di Universitas Padjadjaran dan Master serta PhD di Fakultas Hukum University of Melbourne. Aktif tidak hanya dalam kegiatan riset, tapi juga menjadi Editor di berbagai jurnal ilmiah dan menjadi pengajar tidak tetap pada berbagai diklat untuk peneliti maupun memberi bimbingan ilmiah pada siswa dan mahasiswa. Fokus risetnya yang utama adalah studi agraria, hak asasi manusia, hak kelompok (group rights), dan metodologi penelitian hukum.

• 2021. Co-author with Ahmad Najib Burhani and Cahyo Pamungkas, The National Research And Innovation Agency (BRIN): A New Arrangement for Research in Indonesia. ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, November 2021. Series: Trends in Southeast Asia, ISSN 0219-3213
• 2020. Criminal Injustice and Agrarian Reform, book chapter in Crime and Punishment in Indonesia, Timothy Lindsey and Helen Pausacker (Eds), Taylor and Francis, December 2020, ISBN 9781138317383.
• 2019. Co-author dengan Anna Sanders, Rebecca M Ford, Rut Dini Prasti H, Anne M Larson, Yusurum Jagau, Rodney J Keenan. Unrelenting games: Multiple negotiations and landscape transformations in the tropical peatlands of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, World Development 117 196-210. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.01.008
• 2015. Lilis Mulyani, Gambling with the State: Land Titles and Personhood Rights Among the Urban Poor in Indonesia. Asian Journal of Law and Society, Volume 2 Issue No. 2 November 2015, pp. 285-300.
• 2009. Women and Work in Indonesia, Book Review, Asian Ethnicity, Asian Ethnicity, 1469-2953, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187 – 191.
• 2009. Lilis Mulyani, Globalization and Poverty Revisited: Intensified Inequality and the Symptom of Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia, Tamkang Journal of International Affairs, Tamkang University Taiwan, Volume XII Number III January 2009. (In English).

• Australian Development Scholarship (2003-2004)
• Democratic Pacific Union Visiting Fellowship for Research Scholarship in Taiwan (2007)
• StuNED Scholarship, at the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) The Hague Netherland (2011)
• Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) Scholarship for Doctoral Degree (2016 – 2020)
• DEHari Small Scheme Research Grant (2021)