HKU Department of Earth Science
Prof. Liu, Zhu
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Prof. Liu, Zhu
Professor
Zhu takes an integrated approach to assess the human impacts on the earth system in terms of greenhouse gas emissions (Nature 2015, Nature 2019). Zhu has pioneered the study of anthropogenic carbon sink, the phenomenon and measurement that artifacts can uptake CO2 from the atmosphere (Nature Geoscience 2016). Zhu’s broad research interests also cross the Life-environment interrelationship in Early-life evolution (Chinese Science Bulletin,2007), astrobiology and the science and policy toward advancing human sustainability. Zhu initiated and led the Carbon Monitor project that provides the first ever global daily CO2 emission dataset (https://carbonmonitor.org/). Zhu initiated the China Exo-Ecosystem Space Experiment (CHEESE) based on the Tiangong Space Station (Nature Astronomy 2023).
Zhu holds a Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Industrial Ecology 2013) with joint training by University of Cambridge (2012). Zhu conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University (Sustainability Science, 2013-2015) and California Institute of Technology (Applied Physics, 2015-2017).
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Selected Publications
- Zhu Liu*†, Zhu Deng†, Biqing Zhu, Philippe Ciais, Steven J Davis, Jianguang Tan, Robbie M Andrew, Olivier Boucher, Simon Ben Arous, Josep G Canadell, Xinyu Dou, Pierre Friedlingstein, Pierre Gentine, Rui Guo, Chaopeng Hong, Robert B Jackson, Daniel M Kammen, Piyu Ke, Corinne Le Quéré, Crippa Monica, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Glen P Peters, Katsumasa Tanaka, Yilong Wang, Bo Zheng, Haiwang Zhong, Taochun Sun, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Global patterns of daily CO2 emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19. Nature Geoscience, 15 (8): 615-620 (2022).
- Zhu Liu*, Zhu Deng, Gang He, Hailin Wang, Xian Zhang, Jiang Lin, Ye Qi, and Xi Liang. Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3, 141–155 (2022)
- Zhu Liu*†, Philippe Ciais†, Zhu Deng†, Steven J. Davis*, Bo Zheng, Yilong Wang, Duo Cui, Biqing Zhu, Xinyu Dou, Piyu Ke, Taochun Sun, Rui Guo, Haiwang Zhong, Olivier Boucher, François-Marie Bréon, Chenxi Lu, Runtao Guo, Jinjun Xue, Eulalie Boucher, Katsumasa Tanaka, and Frédéric Chevallier. Carbon Monitor, a near-real-time daily dataset of global CO2 emission from fossil fuel and cement production. Scientific Data, 7 (1), 1-12 (2020).
- Fengming Xi, Steven J. Davis, Philippe Ciais, Douglas Crawford-Brown, Dabo Guan, Claus Pade, Tiemao Shi, Mark Syddall, Jie Lv, Lanzhu Ji, Longfei Bing, Jiaoyue Wang, Wei Wei, Keun-Hyeok Yang, Bjorn Lagerblad, Isabel Galan, Carmen Andrade, Ying Zhang, and Zhu Liu*. Substantial Global Carbon Uptake by Cement Carbonation. Nature Geoscience, 9 (12), 880-883 (2016).
- Duo Cui, Lingyan Li, Siyao Yang, Xiuzhu Dong, Meng Zhang, Yeqing Sun, Tao Zhang, Qing Tian, Xuping Tian & Zhu Liu*. In pursuit of life beyond Earth. Nature Astronomy 7, 1004–1005 (2023)