Junguo Liu is a professor and President of the North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power. His research involves several areas, including hydrology and water resources, global environmental change, and ecological restoration. He has published approximately 300 scientific articles in numerous high-impact journals, including Science, Nature, and PNAS.

He has served as an editor-in-chief, editor, associate editor, or board member of 12 scientific journals. He founded China’s inaugural provincial-level society devoted to ecological restoration and was subsequently elected as President of the Society for Ecological Rehabilitation of Beijing. He serves as the Vice President of the Chinese National Commission for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and the Chair of the Union of Societies for Ecological Restoration and Environmental Protection in Beijing.

Professor Junguo Liu is a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. He is a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate and Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers. He has received the IAHS-UNESCO-WMO International Hydrology Prize - Volker Medal, the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Award, the Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture Award of the American Geophysical Union, the Communication Award of the International Society for Ecological Restoration, and numerous other prestigious awards.

He is widely recognized for his contributions to the field and has been elected as a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Science and Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe), and as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).