Biography

Dr. Junguo Liu is a Chair Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in China, and a Senior Guest Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. His main research interests include hydrology and water resources, global environmental change, and ecological restoration. He has earned an excellent international reputation through his contributions to the fields of water resources research and ecological restoration.

Prof. Liu has outstanding scientific achievements and extensive services to the hydrological communities worldwide. He has led a pioneering work on advancing water resources assessment in coupled human-natural systems, in particular for global hydrology research and water scarcity assessment by incorporating water resources quantity, quality and environmental flow requirement. His work has been a breakthrough in assessing and quantifying the water quantity and quality related water scarcity, which has become increasingly common in many areas in the world as the poor water quality makes the limited water resources not useable. He has extensive working experience in China, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S., among others. He is an expert consultant for many international organizations including UN-Water, UNEP, and the Water Footprint Network. He was selected as a Lead Author of the IPCC (Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change) Sixth Assessment Report. He is a Vice Chair of the Chinese National Commission for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (CNC-IAHS), a target leader of the Decade Program 2013-2022 (Panta Rhei) of the International Association for Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), the Chair of the working group on Water Scarcity Assessment of the Panta Rhei program, and the vice-president of the Chinese Working Committee for the IAHS-Panta Rhei. He organized and co-chaired the first International Conference on Hydrological Knowledge Innovation and Practice in Developing Countries in 2016 in Shenzhen, China. This conference has led to the mile-stone document “The Shenzhen Declaration on Global Hydrological Science and Practice”.

Prof. Liu has made a substantial contribution to eco-hydrological restoration in China. He founded two ecological restoration organizations in China: The Society for Ecological Rehabilitation of Beijing (SERB), founded in 2014, and the Union of Societies for Ecological Restoration and Environmental Protection (USEREP), founded in 2016. The former is the first society recognized by the Chinese government which specifically focuses on eco-hydrological restoration. The latter is the first officially recognized union of Chinese organizations by Beijing Association of Science and Technology. Prof. Liu is the first president of SERB, and the first Chair of USEREP. Both the organizations are playing important roles in safeguarding China’s water and ecological security. He was also the Chair of the 9th World Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference that was held in Shenzhen in December 2017.

Prof. Liu is author of over 190 publications (135 ISI papers), including articles in Science (1), Nature (1), PNAS (3), Nature Climate Change (2), Nature Communications (2), Nature Sustainability (2) and Science Advances (1). His articles have been cited for over 7200 times. In recognition of his outstanding work, he won the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the European Geosciences Union in 2009, and he was the first hydrologist in the world to receive this award. He also received The Person of the Year of Scientific Chinese (2011), ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award (2011), the Young Researcher Gold Award by China Science Daily (2012), the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foundation in China (2016), the 2017 Communication Award of the International Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), the Young Scientists Award (one out of eight winners in all fields in China) from the Ministry of Education of China (2018), the Beijing Science and Technology Award (2nd Prize) by Beijing Municipal Government (2018), the Special Allowance of State Council (2018)，and the Science and Technology Award for Chinese Youth (2019).

Education

2003-2007    PhD Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, Environmental Sciences

2000-2002    MSc UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands, Water and Environmental Resources Management

1995-1999    BSc North China Institute of Water Conservation and Hydroelectric Power, Zhengzhou, China, Irrigation and Drainage

Current Positions

2019-Present  Chair Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China 

2018-Present  Associate Dean, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

2018-Present  Senior Guest Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

Positions Held

2016-2019   Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China 

2010-2018   Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria (1 month/year) 

2009-2015   Professor, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China 

2007-2009   Research Scientist/Post-doc, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland 

2003-2007   PhD Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (ETHZ), Dübendorf, Switzerland 

2002-2003   Research Assistant, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands (6 months in total)

2002-2002   Associate Expert, Secretariat of the International Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management (CAP-NET), Delft, the Netherlands (6 months in total)

Honors and Awards

2020: The member of The Academy of Europe 

2019: Elected Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, UK 

2019: Science and Technology Award for Chinese Youth, by Chinese Government and China Association for Science and Technology

2019: Winner of the Leading Innovative Talent of Science and Technology, by Ministry of Science and Technology of China 

2019: Winner of the Special Allowance of State Council2018: Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, UK 

2018: Beijing Science and Technology Award (2nd Prize), by Beijing Municipal Government 

2018: Young Scientists Award (only 8 winners in total in 2018 in China), by Ministry of Education of China 

2017: Communication Award (only one winner in the world every other year), by Society for Ecological Restoration International (SER) (The Communication Award recognizes individuals that have made a significant impact in advancing the theory, practice or public awareness of restoration through innovative communication strategies. SER presented this year’s award to Junguo Liu: “Through his vision, efforts, and accomplishments, Dr. Liu brought ecological restoration to the forefront as a critically needed discipline in China. He surmounted enormous institutional obstacles in creating restoration societies for the first time in China.” https://www.ser.org/page/PastRecipients)     

2017: National-level Talent, by Human Resources and Social Security & Administration of Shenzhen Municipality2017: Outstanding Research Award, by Southern University of Science and Technology, China 

2017: Outstanding Tutor Award, by Southern University of Science and Technology, China 

2016: Distinguished Young Scientist Award, by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 

2016: Overseas High-Caliber Personnel (Level B), by Human Resources and Social Security & Administration of Shenzhen Municipality 

2016: High-Level Talent in Nanshan District of Shenzhen (Level B), by Human Resources Bureau of Nanshan District, Shenzhen 

2014: Beijing Youth Award, by Beijing Municipal Commission of the China Youth League 

2014: Best Teaching Award, by Beijing Forestry University 

2013: Senior Cheney Fellowship, by University of Leeds, UK 

2013: Best Tutor Award, by Beijing Forestry University 

2012: Young Researcher Gold Award, by China Science Daily 

2011: ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award, winner in the field “Biodiversity and Natural Resources Management”, by Scopus, Elsevier, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 

2011: Person of the Year and Outstanding Young Scientist Award, by Scientific Chinese 

2009: Outstanding Young Scientists Award, by the European Geosciences Union (first hydrologist in the world for this award) (The 2009 Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Junguo Liu for “his impressive contributions in water research and management”) 

2006: Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, by China Scholarship Council

2005: World Science Forum Sponsorship for the 

2005 World Science Forum, Budapest, Hungary 

2004: UNESCO Sponsorship to attend the 1st General Conference of WAYS (World Academy of Young Scientists), Marrakesh, Morocco 

2004: Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) Sponsorship for Asian Scientists

2002: Member of Winning Team, International Seminar on Water and Human (In)Security, Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management & Netherlands Water Partnership, the Hague, the Netherlands 

 2001: Science and Technology Achievement Award (1st Prize), by Educational Department of Henan Province

Paper Awards

2020: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (Earth's Future 5: 545-559). 

2020: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (Global Environmental Change 23(3): 633-643).

2020: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (Nature Communications 8: 15697).

2020: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (Science of the Total Environment 613: 218–232). 

2020: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (Hydrological Sciences Journal 64: 1141–1158). 

2020: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (Applied Energy 235: 186–203). 

2020: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (CATENA. 160: 134-140).2020: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (Nature 524 (7565): 335-338). 

2020: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (PNAS 112(4): 1031-1035).

2020: ESI Hot paper (Top 0.1%) (Hydrological Sciences Journal 64: 1141–1158). 

2019: ESI Hot paper (Top 0.1%) (Nature 524 (7565): 335-338).2019: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (Nature Climate Change 8: 70–74). 

2019: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (Climatic Change 141 (3): 597–598).2015: ESI Highly cited paper (Top 1%) (PNAS 107(17): 8035-8040). 

2019: Cover paper (Earth's Future 5: 545-559). 

2019: Cover paper (Nature Climate Change 9 (12): 979-985). 

2019: Most downloaded paper (Top 20 most read) in Earth's Future (Earth's Future 5: 545-559). 

2011: The 100 most influential research articles in China (PNAS 107(17): 8035-8040), by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China 

2010: Best Research Article, by Beijing Forestry University.

Current Positions

2019-Present  Chair Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China 

2018-Present  Associate Dean, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

2018-Present  Senior Guest Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

Services to Community and Advisory Boards

2018 to present:Lead Author, IPCC (Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change) Sixth Assessment Report 

 2019 to present:Vice President, Chinese National Commission for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (CNC-IAHS) 

 2015 to present:Target Leader, The Decade Program 2013-2022 (Panta Rhei) of the International Association of Hydrologic Sciences (IAHS) 

 2016 to present:Vice President, Chinese Working Committee for the IAHS-Panta Rhei 

 2014 to present:President, Society for Ecological Rehabilitation of Beijing (SERB)

 2016 to present:Chair, Union of Societies for Ecological Restoration and Environmental Protection in Beijing (USEREP) 

 2019 to present:Member, Strategic Advisory Council, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)

 2020:Expert Reviewer, Second Order Draft of the WGI contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report 

 2019:Expert Reviewer, First Order Draft of the WGII contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report 

 2019-2020:Expert Reviewer, First Order Draft of the WGIII contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report IPCC Special Report: Climate Change and Land

 2019:Expert Reviewer, IPCC Special Report: Climate Change and Land 

 2017 to present:Associate Director, Committee on Resource and Ecology of the China Society of Natural Resources 

 2018 to present:"Pengcheng Scholar” Professor, by Shenzhen Government 

 2016 to present:Members, Water Infrastructure Criteria Technical Working Group, Climate Bonds Initiative (https://www.climatebonds.net) 

2018 to 2022:Associate Director, Hydrological Geography Committee of The Geographical Society of China 

 2017 to 2022:Associate Director, Resources Ecology Research Committee of China Society of Natural Resources 

 2017 to 2019:Standing Committee Member, Beijing Association for Science and Technology (BAST)

 2017 to 2019:Expert, Help Our Motherland through Elite Intellectual Resources from Overseas, China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) 

 2016 to 2018:Contributor, International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) Report “Rethinking Society for the 21st Century”

 2008 to 2017:Committee Member, Water Footprint Peer Review Committee, Water Footprint Network 

 2016 to 2018:Member of Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Water Use Assessment (Water TAG), Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance Partnership. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

 2012 to 2015:Committee Member, International Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), 4th edition “Water for Life”, UN-Water Best Practices Award (four members in total) 

 2009 to 2015:Committee Member, International Commission on Water Resources Systems, International Association of Hydrologic Sciences (IAHS) 

 2013 to 2014:Review Panel Chair and Member for the Research Assessment of Environmental and Sustainability Sciences 2014, the Netherlands Research School for Socio-economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE) (Chair of the review panel of the Water Management Group at the University of Twente; Member of the review panel at UNESCO-IHE) 

 2012 to 2013:Technical Advisory Committee Member, Thirst (NGO for Global Water Awareness)

 2011 to 2011:Chinese expert, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) 

 2011 to 2011: Panel expert, International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, UNEP 

 2010 to 2010:Member, Research Planning Coordination Committee, IIASA 

 2009 to 2010:Technical expert, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) 

 2012 to present:Member, American Geosciences Union 

 2008 to present:Member, European Geosciences Union 

 2008 to present :Member, International Association of Hydrological Sciences 

 2004 to 2007:Member, Steering Committee, World Academy of Young Scientists

Editorship and Editorial Board Membership

•  Associate Editor-in-Chief, Geography and Sustainability (China), 2020-present 

•  Associate Editor, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (UK), 2019- present

•  Associate Editor, Associate Editor, Frontiers in Environmental Science (UK), Board of Environmental Economics and Management (Specialty Section of Frontiers in Environmental Science), 2020- present 

•  Editor, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Germany), 2008-2015

•  Editor, Journal of Water and Climate Change (UK), 2013-2018

•  Guest Editor, Special Issue on Food-Energy-Water Nexus for Multi-scale Sustainable Development, Resources, Conservation and Recycling (Netherlands). 2019 

•  Guest Editor, Special Issue on Water Resources Assessment, Development and Management in Coupled Human-Natural Systems, Water (Switzerland). 2019

•  Guest Editor, Special Issue on Energy-Water-Food Nexus, Applied Energy (UK). 

2017

•  Guest Editor, Special Issue on Panta Rhei: Opinions and Progress towards Hydrology for a Changing World, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Germany). 2016

•  Guest Editor, Special Issue on Water Use Efficiency and Integrated Water Resource Management, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (UK). 2016

•  Guest Editor, Special Issue on Water Scarcity and Integrated Water Resources Management, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (UK). 2015

•  Guest Editor, Special Issue on Water Productivity and Integrated Resources Management, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (UK). 2015

•  Guest Editor, Special Issue on Water, Climate, and Vegetation: Ecohydrology in a Changing World, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Germany). 2012

Membership

•  Member, American Geophysical Union 

•  Member, European Geosciences Union 

•  Member, International Association of Hydrological Sciences

•  Member, Society for Ecological Restoration

•  Member, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 

•  Member, The Geographical Society of China 

•  Member, China Society of Natural Resources 

•  Member, Royal Meteorological Society, UK

•  Member, Royal Geographical Society, UK 

•  Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)