CEADs Member Associate Professor Zhu Liu Receives the Qiushi Outstanding Young Scholar Award
Recently, the Qiushi Science and Technologies Foundation announced the winners of the 2019 Qiushi Awards. CEADs member Associate Professor Zhu Liu of Tsinghua University, together with 11 other outstanding young scholars from across China, received the Qiushi Outstanding Young Scholar Award. In addition, Professor Chen-Ning Yang received the Qiushi Lifetime Achievement Award; Professor Nieng Yan and Professor Feng Shao received the Qiushi Outstanding Scientist Award; and the team working on pathogenic mechanisms and prevention and control of influenza and other major pathogens received the Qiushi Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Team Award.
The Qiushi Science and Technologies Foundation was founded in 1994 by the patriotic industrialist Cha Chi Ming. Guided by its mission of providing timely support, the foundation actively upholds and advocates the core values of scientific spirit and humanistic concern. Its awards are selected and reviewed by a group of internationally renowned scholars who serve as advisers. World-leading scientists who have participated in and supported the foundation include Professors Chen-Ning Yang, Guangzhao Zhou, Yuet-Wai Kan, David Ho, Jiandong Sun, Yigong Shi, Qide Han, Yongxiang Lu, Gang Tian, Xiaodong Wang, Xiaoliang Xie, Bangfen Zhu, and others. From 1994 to 2019, the foundation honored 358 Chinese scientists with outstanding achievements in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biomedicine, engineering, information science, and other fields. These awards included 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards, 31 Outstanding Scientist Awards, 192 Outstanding Young Scholar Awards, and 133 Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Team Awards covering 16 major research projects, such as artemisinin, the artificial synthesis of bovine insulin, desertification control in the Tarim Basin, iron-based superconductors, and the Shenzhou spacecraft.
Zhu Liu received his bachelor degree from the Geology Base Class at Northwest University, his master degree from the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences at China Agricultural University, and his PhD from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He later conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University and at Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 2017, he taught at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the United Kingdom and also served as a senior researcher at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. In 2018, with support from a national overseas high-level talent program, he joined the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University as an associate professor and doctoral supervisor.
Zhu Liu focuses on key interdisciplinary questions in Earth system science and global change. He has published five papers in Nature, including three as first author and one cover-feature article; 13 papers in Nature family journals, including four as first or corresponding author and one cover paper; two papers in PNAS; and one paper in Science Advances. Twenty-two of his papers have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers, and two were included among China 100 Most Influential Academic Papers in 2018. His publications have been cited more than 6,000 times. He was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2018 and has received the Green Talents Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Special Award of the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations Award. His doctoral dissertation won the Springer Theses Award and was published as an English-language monograph. His research has repeatedly drawn close attention from national ministries and has been referenced in policy decision-making.
