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Professor Liu, Laibao 劉來保

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Assistant Professor

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Professor Liu, Laibao 劉來保

Title:
Assistant Professor

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
2015-2020Peking UniversityPh.D.
2018-2020Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichPh.D.
Biography

Dr. Laibao Liu is an tenure-track assistant professort at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), affiliated with both Department of Geography and Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality. His research interests are land and climate systems, land-atmosphere interaction, land carbon cycle, and renewable energy.

He was born in 1993 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu (China). He studied at Lanzhou University (Geography, 2011-2015), Peking Univesity (Physical Geography, 2015-2018) and ETH Zurich (Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 2018-2020). During his Ph.D., he was a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich with Prof. Sonia Seneviratne. He recieved his Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Dahe Qin (秦大河) and Prof. Shuangcheng Li (李双成). After his Ph.D., he returned to ETH Zurich as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist with Prof. Sonia Seneviratne. From 2024, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at HKU.

He has published about 30 peer-reviewed articles. His leading research outcomes are published in high-impact journals, such as Nature (Climate impacts on Land carbon sink), Nature Energy (Climate impacts on Renewable energy systems) and Nature Communications (Process of Climate-Carbon coupling), and received several awards for his research, including 2023 Best Paper Award by International Association of Chinese Youth in Water Sciences, 2022 Best Paper Award in Resources, Recycling & Reservation, Top 50 Nature Communications Earth and planetary sciences articles published in 2020, and two Highly Cited Papers by Clarivate since 2021 and 2023, respectively.

 
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
2025-PresentMemberChina Society of Natural Resources, Committee of Climate Resources
2019-PresentMemberEuropean Geophysical Union
2016-PresentMemberAmerican Geophysical Union
2023-PresentYoung Editorial BoardJournal: Carbon Neutrality
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Renewable Energy可再生能源
Land-Climate Interaction陆气相互作用
Land Carbon Cycle陆地碳循环
Climate Change气候变化
Carbon Neutrality碳中和
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
Putonghua普通話
English英語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English英文
Chinese中文
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