Conference Title: Does urban ecological infrastructure follow scaling laws?

 

Gengyuan Liu is Professor and Vice Dean at the School of Environment, Beijing Normal University. He is Director of the Regional Center for Asia, Africa, and Oceania within the Advances in Cleaner Production Network, and serves as Secretary-in-Chief of both the China Chapter of the International Society for Advancement in Emergy Research and the Education Committee of the Chinese Society of Ecology. He is also Managing Editor of Environmental Nexus (Elsevier) and has guest-edited ten SCI-indexed journals, including Journal of Cleaner Production, Applied Energy, and Energy.

 

Professor Liu has published more than 100 papers in leading SCI-indexed journals, with over 60 appearing in Q1 journals. His work has been cited over 10,000 times, giving him an h-index of 56. He has received major national awards, including the Second Prize of the National Science & Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the Science & Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education, and the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education. His research has also been widely recognized internationally: three of his papers were listed as “Hottest Papers” in SciVerse ScienceDirect (SSD), one was the “Most Downloaded Paper,” and another was ranked as a “Highly Cited Paper” in ESI (Essential Science Indicators). In 2018, he was awarded the Advances in Cleaner Production Network (ACPN) Medal Award: Young Researcher.

 

He holds a B.E. in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Beijing Normal University. He has also studied as a visiting scholar at the University of Parthenope in Naples and the University of Florida’s Center for Environmental Policy.

 

Professor Liu’s research focuses on:

- Urban ecological planning and management using big data and machine learning;

- Correlation analysis of urban ecological exposure, population health, and biodiversity;

- Pathways to carbon peaking and neutrality in cities, including emission reduction synergies and technology choices;

- Material metabolism in urban agglomerations and regulation of the energy–water–food nexus.

 

He has led multiple international consortium projects and research fellowships funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Beijing Commission of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.