Education background

2004.09-2009.01 Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2000.09-2004.07 B.S. in Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Experience

2021.12-Present Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2013.12-2021.11 Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2010.11-2013.11 Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2009.02-2010.10 Post-Doctoral Scholar, 1) CE-CERT, University of California, Riverside

                      2) International Sustainable System Research Center, CA, USA

Teaching

2021-Present, Clean Air and Climate Management, Postgraduate , English

2014-Present, Physical Pollution Control(Jiang Jianguo, Liu Huan ), Undergraduate, Chinese

2018-Present, Haze Pollution and its Control (He Kebin, Liu Huan), Undergraduate, Freshman seminar, Chinese

2018- Present, Energy and Environment(He Kebin, Liu Huan), Full-time Postgraduate, Chinese

2015- Present, Air Quality Management in China, Postgraduate, English

Concurrent Academic

202309- Atmospheric Environment X, Associate Editors

202211- Pollution Source Emissions and Control Committee of Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, Member of the Academic Organization Committee

202108- Chinese Academic Journal, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Young editor

202010- Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS ES&T Engineering, Young editor

202008- Journal of the Royal Physical Society, Environmental Research Infrastructure & Sustainability, Executive Editorial

201901- The special issue of Journal of Environmental Sciences, The special issue of Journal of Industrial Ecology, The Joint issue of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics & Ocean Science, Guest editor

202105- International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project, Youth committee

202006- China's Freight Transport System Efficient and Green Development Institutional System Construction Project by Global Environment Facility, Peer-review

201908- EU Horizon 2020 – EMERGE (Evaluation, Control and Mitigation of the Environmental impacts of shipping Emissions) project, Steering and Advisory Board

201809- The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Peer-review

201802- China Clean Transport Partnership (CCTP), Member of the Academic Organization Committee

201706- VOCs Pollution Control Committee, Ozone Pollution Control Committee, Young Scientists Branch of Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, Member of the Academic Organization Committee

Areas of Research Interests

Committed to improving the understanding and predictability of the contemporary atmospheric environment through the coupling of material flow, transportation, and atmospheric systems, research directions include the interaction between transportation activities and air pollution and climate change, decision-making for air pollution prevention and control, and prediction and routing of net zero emission transportation systems.

Research Projects

1. Transport emission and atmospheric effects, Distinguished Young Scholar Fund by NSFC, 2024-2028

2. Dynamic Simulation of Aircraft Near Ground Emissions, Atmospheric Environmental Impact and Emission Reduction Research, Key Support Projects of Joint Fund Project by NSFC, 2023-2026

3. Research on targeted supervision technology and regulation of emissions during transportation, National Key Research and Development Plan Youth Project, 2022-2025

4. Research on high resolution traffic emission and air quality simulation and perception system development, National Natural Science Foundation of China (China-UK Talent Fund), 2020-2022

5. Emission characterization and multi-scale atmospheric environmental impacts of transportation sector, Excellent Young Scholar Fund by NSFC, 2019-2021

6. The PM2.5 source apportionment and control of traffic emissions in Beijing, Beijing NOVA Program, 2018-2020

7. Regional dynamic high spatio-temporal resolution air source emission inventory，Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China，2017-2019

8. Emission modeling study of VOCs species from on-road mobile source based on behavior chain analysis, General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2016-2019

9. Emission inventory of multi-pollutants from marine vessels in Bohai sea, Major Research Program of The National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2016-2018

10. Research on optimization and evolutionary algorithm of traffic flow based on emission constraint, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2012-2014

Honors and Awards  

2023, The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, by the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2022, Second-Class Award for Environmental Protection Science and Technology, by Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences

2021, National Young Top Talent, by Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China

2020, Newton Advanced Fellowship, by Royal Society, Academy of Medical Sciences and NSFC

2019, Young Scientist Award (Golden Prize), by the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences

2019, Tsinghua SRT Project Excellence Award (First Prize), by Tsinghua University

2018, Climate and Clean Air Award (team), by UN Environment Programme

2018, The National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, by the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2018, Fok Ying-Tong Education Awards for Young Teachers in the Higher Education Institutions of China (since 1986), by Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China

2017, Outstanding Science and Technology Youth Award in Marine Field, by State Oceanic Administration of the People's Republic of China

2017, Beijing Science and Technology New Star (Beijing Nova Program, since 1993), by Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission

2017, Second-Class Award for Science and Technology Progress (3/20), for the subject of Pollution Control Evaluation and Air Quality Forecasting System, by Hebei Science and Technology Department

2017, Youth Academic Innovation Award, by Volatile Organic Compounds Control Specialized Committee, Chinese Society for Environment Science

2016, Second-Class Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award (5/9), for the subject of VOCs emission and control in full life cycle of oil products, by Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China

2016, The outstanding environmental science and technology experts, by 11th Chinese Society for Environmental Science

2015, First-Class Award for Science and Technology Progress (11/15), by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

2014, Excellent Supervisor Award for Class Tutors, by Tsinghua University

2012, Distinguished Youth in Science and Technology, by Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences

2011, Tsinghua University excellent recruit, by Tsinghua University

Academic Achievement

Representative Articles

1. Wang, X.^*; Liu, H. ^*#; Lv, Z.; Deng, F.; Xu H.; Qi, L.; Shi, M.; Zhao, J.; Zheng, S.; Man, H.; He, K.. Trade-linked shipping CO₂ emissions. Nature Climate Change 2021, 11, 945–951

2. Deng, F.; Lv, Z.; Qi, L.; Wang, X.; Shi, M.; Liu, H.^*. A big data approach to improving the vehicle emission inventory in China. Nature Communications 2020, 11: 2801.

3. Liu, H.^*; Meng, Z.; Lv, Z.; Wang, X.; Deng, F.; Liu,Y.; Zhang, Y.; Shi, M.; Zhang, Q.^*; He, K.^*. Emissions and health impacts from global shipping embodied in US–China bilateral trade. Nature Sustainability 2019, 2(11): 1027–1033.

4. Li, M.^#; Liu, H.^#; Geng, G.; Hong, C.; Liu, F.; Song, Y.; Tong, D.; Zheng, B.; Cui, H.; Man, H.; Zhang, Q.^*; He, K.^*. Anthropogenic emission inventories in China: a review. National Science Review 2017, 4(6): 834-866.

5. Liu, H.^*; Fu, M.; Jin, X.; Shang, Y.; Shindell, D.^*; Faluvegi, G.; Shindell, C.; He, K.^*. Health and climate impacts of ocean-going vessels in East Asia. Nature Climate Change 2016, 6(11): 1037-1041.

Full Article List

1. Shihui Zhang^#, Chi Zhang^#, Wenjia Cai^#, Yuqi Bai, Max Callaghan, Nan Chang, Bin Chen, Huiqi Chen, Liangliang Cheng, Hancheng Dai, Xin Dai, Weicheng Fan, Xiaoyi Fang, Tong Gao, Yang Geng, Dabo Guan, Yixin Hu, Junyi Hua, Cunrui Huang, Hong Huang, Jianbin Huang, Xiaomeng Huang, John S Ji, Qiaolei Jiang, Xiaopeng Jiang, Gregor Kiesewetter, Tiantian Li, Lu Liang, Borong Lin, Hualiang Lin, Huan Liu, Qiyong Liu, Xiaobo Liu, Zhao Liu, Zhu Liu, Yufu Liu, Bo Lu, Chenxi Lu, Zhenyu Luo, Wei Ma, Zhifu Mi, Chao Ren, Marina Romanello, Jianxiang Shen, Jing Su, Yuze Sun, Xinlu Sun, Xu Tang, Maria Walawender, Can Wang, Qing Wang, Rui Wang, Laura Warnecke, Wangyu Wei, Sanmei Wen, Yang Xie, Hui Xiong, Bing Xu, Yu Yan, Xiu Yang, Fanghong Yao, Le Yu, Jiacan Yuan, Yiping Zeng, Jing Zhang, Lu Zhang, Rui Zhang, Shangchen Zhang, Shaohui Zhang, Mengzhen Zhao, Dashan Zheng, Hao Zhou, Jingbo Zhou, Ziqiao Zhou, Yong Luo, Peng Gong^*. The 2023 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: taking stock for a thriving future. Lancet Public Health. 2023, November 18, S2468-2667.

2. Piaopiao Hu, Jie Chang, Yulin Huang, Moning Guo, Feng Lu, Ying Long, Huan Liu, Xudong Yang, Yue Qi, Jiayi Sun, Zhao Yang, Qiuju Deng^*, Jing Liu^*. Nonoptimum Temperatures Are More Closely Associated With Fatal Myocardial Infarction Than With Nonfatal Events. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2023,1-10.

3. Jiajun Liu^*, Qiang Zhang, Huan Liu, Hengrui Tao. The 10- to 30-day intraseasonal weather process associated with wintertime PM_2.5 pollution in eastern China. Journal of Geophysical Research:Atmospheres. 2023, 128, e2023JD038884.

4. Haitong Zhe Sun^#, Junchao Zhao^#, Xiang Liu, Minghao Qiu, Huizhong Shen, Serge Guillas, Chiara Giorio, Zosia Staniaszek, Pei Yu, Michelle W.L. Wan, Man Mei Chim, Kim Robin van Daalen, Yilin Li, Zhenze Liu, Mingtao Xia, Shengxian Ke, Haifan Zhao, Haikun Wang, Kebin He, Huan Liu^*, Yuming Guo^*, Alexander T. Archibald*. Antagonism between ambient ozone increase and urbanizationoriented population migration on Chinese cardiopulmonary mortality. The Innovation.2023, 4(6): 100517.

5. Zhining Zhang^#, Junchao Zhao^#, Hanyang Man, Lijuan Q, Hang Yin, Zhaofeng Lv, Yuheng Jiang, Junjie Dong, Meng Zeng, Zhitao Cai, Zhenyu Luo, Kebin He, Huan Liu^*. Updating Emission Inventories for Vehicular Organic Gases: Indications from Cold-Start and Temperature Effects on Advanced Technology Cars. Science of the Total Environment. 2023,882,163544.

6. Wenjia Cai^#, Chi Zhang^#, Shihui Zhang^#, Yuqi Bai, Max Callaghan, Nan Chang, Bin Chen, Huiqi Chen, Liangliang Cheng, Xueqin Cui, Hancheng Dai, Bawuerjiang Danna, Wenxuan Dong, Weicheng Fan, Xiaoyi Fang, Tong Gao, Yang Geng, Dabo Guan, Yixin Hu, Junyi Hua, Cunrui Huang, Hong Huang, Jianbin Huang, Linlang Jiang, Qiaolei Jiang, Xiaopeng Jiang, Hu Jin, Gregor Kiesewetter, Lu Liang, Borong Lin, Hualiang Lin, Huan Liu, Qiyong Liu, Tao Liu, Xiaobo Liu, Xinyuan Liu, Zhao Liu, Zhu Liu, Shuhan Lou, Chenxi Lu, Zhenyu Luo, Wenjun Meng, Hui Miao, Chao Ren, Marina Romanello, Wolfgang Schöpp, Jing Su, Xu Tang, Can Wang, Qiong Wang, Laura Warnecke, Sanmei Wen, Wilfried Winiwarter, Yang Xie, Bing Xu, Yu Yan, Xiu Yang, Fanghong Yao, Le Yu, Jiacan Yuan, Yiping Zeng, Jing Zhang, Lu Zhang, Rui Zhang, Shangchen Zhang, Shaohui Zhang, Qi Zhao, Dashan Zheng, Hao Zhou, Jingbo Zhou, Margaret Fu-Chun Chan Fung, Yong Luo^*, Peng Gong^*. The 2022 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: leveraging climate actions for healthy ageing. Lancet Public Health. 2022,7,e1073–90.

7. Yuan, Le; Popoola, Olalekan A. M.; Hood, Christina; Carruthers, David; Jones, Roderic L.; Sun, Haitong Zhe; Liu, Huan; Zhang, Qiang; Archibald, Alexander T.^*. Improving NOx emission estimates in Beijing using network observations and a perturbed emissions ensemble. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics，2022, 22, 8617-8632.

8. Liu, Jiajun; Zhao, Chuanfeng; Lin, Yanluan; Zhang, Qiang; Liu, Huan; Xiao, Qingyang; Peng, Yiran^*. Potential Impacts of Aerosol on Diurnal Variation of Precipitation in Autumn Over the Sichuan Basin, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2022, 127, 13.

9. Lv, Zhaofeng^#; Luo, Zhenyu^#; Deng, Fanyuan; Wang, Xiaotong; Zhao, Junchao; Xu, Lucheng; He, Tingkun; Zhang, Yingzhi; Liu, Huan^*; He, Kebin. Development and application of a multi-scale modeling framework for urban high-resolution NO2 pollution mapping. Atmos. Chem. Phys.,2022, 22,15685-15702.

10. Shaikh, Asad Ali^#; He, Tingkun^#; Deng, Fanyuan; Luo, Zhenyu; Zhao, Junchao; Zhang, Zhining; Liu, Huan^*. Altitude-dependent gaseous emissions from freight trucks along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in Pakistan. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology.2023, 14, 100226.

11. Zhao, Junchao^#; Lv, Zhaofeng^#; Qi, Lijuan; Zhao, Bin; Deng, Fanyuan; Chang, Xing; Wang, Xiaotong; Luo, Zhenyu; Zhang, Zhining; Xu, Hailian; Ying, Qi; Wang, Shuxiao; He, Kebin; Liu, Huan^*. Comprehensive assessment for the impacts of S/IVOC emissions from mobile sources on SOA formation in China. Environmental Science & Technology.2022, 56, 16695-16706.

12. Bie, Pengju^#; Ji, Liang^#*; Cui, Huanxing; Li, Gang; Liu, Shunli; Yuan, Ying; He, Kebin; Liu, Huan^*. A review and evaluation of nonroad diesel mobile machinery emission control in China. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 2023, 123, 30–40.

13. Zhao, Junchao^#; Qi, Lijuan^#; Lv, Zhaofeng; Wang, Xiaotong; Deng, Fanyuan; Zhang, Zhining; Luo, Zhenyu; Bie, Pengju; He, Kebin; Liu, Huan^*. An updated comprehensive IVOC emission inventory for mobile sources in China. Science of the Total Environment. 2022,851,158312.

14. Luo, Zhenyu^#; Xu, Hailian^#; Zhang, Zhining; Zheng, Songxin; Liu, Huan^*. Year-round changes in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide caused by COVID-19 in China using satellite observation. Journal of Environmental Sciences.

15. Zhang, Zhining; Man, Hanyang; Zhao, Junchao; Jiang, Yuheng; Zeng, Meng; Cai, Zhitao; Huang, Cheng; Huang, Wendong; Zhao, Haiguang; Jing, Shengao; Shi, Xu; He, Kebin; Liu, Huan^*. Primary organic gas emissions in vehicle cold start events: Rates, compositions and temperature effects. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2022,435,128979.

16. Luo, Zhenyu^#; Wang, Yue^#; Lv, Zhaofeng; He, Tingkun; Zhao, Junchao; Wang, Yongyue; Gao, Fei; Zhang, Zhining; Liu, Huan^*. Impacts of vehicle emission on air quality and human health in China. Science of The Total Environment. 2022,813,152655.

17.Zhang, Zhining^#; Man, Hanyang^#; Duan, Fengkui; Lv, Zhaofeng; Zheng, Song-Xin; Zhao, Junchao; Huang, Feifan; Luo, Zhenyu; He, Kebin; Liu, Huan^*. Evaluation of the VOC pollution pattern and emission characteristics during the Beijing resurgence of COVID-19 in summer 2020 based on the measurement of PTR-ToF-MS. Environmental Research Letters. 2022,17,024002.