Junguo Liu

Biography

Dr. Junguo Liu is a full professor at Beijing Forestry University (China). Prof. Liu is author of more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, including research articles in PNAS, Environmental Science & Technology, and Global Environmental Change, and 2 correspondence letters in Nature and 1 letter in Science. He serves as an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Water and Climate Change and as an editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS). He is an expert consultant for many international organizations and NGOs, including UN-Water, UNEP, WWF, IUCN, and the Water Footprint Network, as well as for private companies such as Nestlé and the C&A chain of clothing stores. He is a senior visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds in Leeds, the U.K. and a visiting scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. Prof. Liu has a multinational educational background. He obtained his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) in Switzerland, an MSc degree from UNESCO-IHE in the Netherlands, a BSc degree from the North China Institute of Water Conservation and Hydroelectric Power in China and a BSc in agronomic engineering from the University of Sao Paulo, ESALQ (Brazil). He also has multinational working and teaching experience in China, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, USA, Canada, Germany and Egypt.

Research Interest

His main research interests include hydrology and water resources, wetland research, ecosystem services and management, coupled ecological and social systems, water–food relationships, and the impacts of climate change on water, food, and ecosystems.