Junguo Liu

Dr. Junguo Liu is President of North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power. His main research interests include hydrology and water resources management, 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. He has outstanding scientific achievements and extensive services to the hydrological and restoration 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. He is author of over 150 publications, including articles in Science, Nature, PNAS, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability, and Science Advances. His articles have been cited for over 6000 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 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 in all fields in China) from the Ministry of Education of China (2018), the Science and Technology Award for Chinese Youth (2019).