Wenfeng Liu

2006.09-2010.06 Sichuan University, Bachelor

2010.09-2013.06 Beijing Normal University, Master

2013.11-2017.10 ETH Zurich, PhD

Personal websites:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8699-3677

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/wenfeng_liu4

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=mydWnZkAAAAJ

Ten selected first-author papers (* corresponding author):

1. Liu, W.*, Ciais, P., Liu, X., Yang, H., Hoekstra A., Tang, Q., Wang, X., Li, X., Cheng, L., 2020. Global phosphorus losses from croplands under future precipitation scenarios. Environmental Science & Technology, 54: 14761–14771. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c03978

2. Liu, W.*, Yang H.*, Ciais P., Kummu M., and Hoekstra A.Y., 2020. China's food supply sources under trade conflict with the US and limited domestic land and water resources, Earth's Future, 8, e2020EF001482. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001482

3. Liu W.*, Antonelli M., Kummu M., Zhao X., Wu P., Liu J., Zhuo L., Yang H., 2019. Savings and losses of global water resources in food-related virtual water trade. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 6, e1320. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1320 This review is an invited contribution to the journal and was highlighted by Eawag News: Saving water – but not at any cost.

4. Liu, W., Yang, H., Tang, Q., Liu, X.*, 2019. Understanding the Water–Food–Energy nexus for supporting sustainable food production and conserving hydropower potential in China. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7, 50. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00050

5. Liu, W.*, Yang, H., Folberth, C., Müller, C., Ciais, P., Abbaspour, K.C., Schulin, R., 2018. Achieving high crop yields with low nitrogen emissions in global agricultural input intensification. Environmental Science & Technology, 52: 13782–13791. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b03610

6. Liu W.*, Yang H., Ciais P., Stamm C., Zhao X., Williams J., Abbaspour K., Schulin R., 2018. Integrative crop-soil-management modelling to assess global phosphorus losses from major crop cultivations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32: 1074–1086. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017GB005849

7. Liu, W.*, Yang, H., Liu, Y., Kummu M., Hoekstra A., Liu, J., Schulin, R., 2018. Water resources conservation and nitrogen pollution reduction under global food trade and agricultural intensification. Science of the Total Environment, 633C: 1591–1601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.306

8. Liu, W., Antonelli, M., Liu, X., Yang, H.*, 2017. Towards improvement of grey water footprint assessment: with an illustration for global maize cultivation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 147: 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.01.072 This paper was highlighted by Eawag News: Making assessments of grey water more consistent.

9. Liu, W.*, Yang, H., Liu, J., Azevedo, L., Wang, X., Xu, Z., Abbaspour, K., Schulin, R., 2016. Global assessment of nitrogen losses and trade-offs with yields from major crop cultivations. Science of the Total Environment, 572: 526–537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.08.093

10. Liu, W.*, Yang, H., Folberth, C., Wang, X., Luo, Q., Schulin, R., 2016. Global investigation of impacts of PET methods on simulating crop-water relations for maize. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 221: 164–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.02.017

Five selected co-author papers (* corresponding author):

1. Jägermeyr, J.*, Robock, A., Elliott, J., Müller, C., Xia, L., Khabarov, N., Folberth, C., Schmid, E., Liu, W., Zabel, F., Rabin, S.S., Puma, M.J., Heslin, A.C., Franke, J., Foster, I., Asseng, S., Bardeen, C.G., Toon, O.B., Rosenzweig, C., 2020. A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security. Proceedings of the National academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117: 7071–7081. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919049117

2. Liu, X., Liu, W., Yang, H., Tang, Q.*, Flörke, M., Masaki, Y., Müller Schmied, H., Ostberg, S., Pokhre, Y., Satoh, Y., Wada, Y., 2019. Multimodel assessments of human and climate impacts on mean annual streamflow in China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23: 1245–1261.https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1245-2019

3. Zhuo, L.*, Liu, Y., Yang, H., Hoekstra, A., Liu, W., Cao, X., Wang, M., Wu, P.*, 2019. Water for maize for pigs for pork: an analysis of inter-provincial trade in China. Water Research, 166, 115074.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.115074

4. Zhao X.*, Li Y.*, Yang H., Liu, W., Tillotson M.R., Guan D., Wang H., 2018. Measuring scarce water saving from interregional virtual water flows in China. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 054012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaba49

5. Müller, C.*, Elliott, J., Chryssanthacopoulos, J., Arneth, A., Balkovič, J., Ciais, P., Deryng, D., Folberth, C., Glotter, M., Hoek, S., Iizumi, T., Izaurralde, R., Jones, C., Khabarov, N., Lawrence, P., Liu, W., Olin, S., Pugh, T., Ray, D., Reddy, A., Rosenzweig, C., Ruane, A.C., Sakurai, G., Schmid, E., Skalsky, R., Song, C., Wang, X., de Wit, A., Yang, H., 2017. Global gridded crop model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications. Geoscientific Model Development, 10: 1403–1422. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1403-2017(ESI highly cited paper)

Editor board:

1) Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (Associate Editor)

Journal reviewer:

1) Nature Food

2) Environmental Science & Technology

3) Global Environmental Change

4) Water Resources Research

5) Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

6) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

7) Economic Systems Research

8) Global Change Biology Bioenergy

9) Science of the Total Environment

10) Environmental Pollution

11) Environmental Research Letters

12) Journal of Cleaner Production

13) Advances in Water Resources

14) Economic Systems Research

15) Global and Planetary Change

16) Sustainable Cities and Society

17) Environmental Science and Pollution Research

18) Journal of Environmental Management

19) Atmospheric Research

20) Hydrological Processes

21) Hydrology Research

22) International Journal of Climatology

23) Stochastic Environmental Research Risk Assessment

24) Geography and Sustainability

25) Journal of Water and Climate Change

26) Natural Hazards

27) Catena

28) Water

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