Professor Shirong Liu is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a distinguished researcher from the Chinese Academy of Forestry. His illustrious career includes leadership roles in prominent national and international scientific organizations, notably as President of the Chinese Ecological Society, Executive Member of the International Society for Ecology, and Vice President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations. Currently, he holds multiple pivotal positions, including the head of the Key Laboratory of Forest Ecosystem, a flagship research unit under the National Forestry and Grassland Administration and Vice President of the Chinese Society of Forestry.

Professor Shirong Liu has pioneered groundbreaking research in forest structure and function, ecological restoration of degraded natural forests and plantation, multifunctional forest management, forest hydrology, and climate change adaptation strategies. His exceptional scholarly output has earned him four Second-Class National Science and Technology Progress Awards(serving as leading recipient for two), three First-Class Provincial/Ministerial Science and Technology Awards, and recognition as a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (Elsevier) in forestry. His intellectual leadership is further evidenced by over 200 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals such as 《Nature Communications》, 《Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences》and《Global Change Biology》.