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Fu Bojie, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is the researcher in the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the CAS (RCEES), Dean of the Faculty of Geographic Sciences of Beijing Normal University, Director of the Geosciences Division of CAS, Director of the Department of Earth Sciences of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and leaders of other national organizations. He focuses on landscape ecology and physical geography research, and has achieved systematic innovations in land use structure and ecological processes, landscape ecology and ecosystem services. He has published over 400 papers, among which 250 were published in SCI journals covering Science, Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change, and 10 books. He has won the National Natural Science Award (2nd Class), the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2nd Class), the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award of the CAS, and Science and Technology Award from the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation. He is the editor-in-chief for Chinese Geographical Science, Landscape Ecology, Landscape and Urban Planning, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, etc.
Professor Congqiang Liu is the Dean and a Distinguished Professor at the School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University. A preeminent geochemist, he was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011), a Fellow of the Geochemical Society (2016), and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2017). Since the late 1990s, Professor Liu has pioneered research in trace element and isotope geochemistry, achieving original breakthroughs in geofluid processes, mantle enrichment, and the mechanisms of water-particle interactions in surface watersheds. Notably, he spearheaded China’s systematic study and management of karst rocky desertification, leading major national initiatives such as the “973” Program. As a visionary leader in Earth’s Critical Zone (ECZ) science, he organized China’s first international ECZ symposium and continues to drive the field forward through the establishment of the Bohai Sea Coastal ECZ National Field Observatory. Currently, he leads a major research program focused on the structures and ecological functions of coastal Earth systems, further advancing the global understanding of Earth system science.
Chen Deliang is an internationally renowned climatologist, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of the International Science Council, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Royal Academy of Arts and Arts of Gothenburg, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, and a foreign academician of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is currently the Head/Professor of the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University. He has long focused on research into climate change and its impacts on water resources and the ecological environment and is an internationally renowned expert and pioneer in climate downscaling models, enjoying a very high international reputation. He has long been committed to promoting international scientific cooperation, playing a particularly important role in the Swedish and Chinese geoscience communities. From 2009 to 2012, he served as the Executive Director of the International Science Council, becoming the first Chinese Executive Director since the organization's founding in 1931, making significant contributions to the leadership, coordination, and cooperation of global scientific research. He previously served as the Scientific Director of the National Climate Center of the China Meteorological Administration and the Director of the Gothenburg Centre for Atmospheric Sciences in Sweden, providing scientific consultation and review services to numerous governments, intergovernmental organizations, international NGOs, and national research funding agencies. He participated in the scientific steering committees and councils of several internationally renowned research centers and programs and served as a judge for international awards such as the Volvo Environment Prize and the Olav Thon Prize. He has served as a member of the Project Review Committee of the Institute for Humanities and Nature in Japan, a member of the Expert Group of the National Major Scientific Research Program on Global Change Research under the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, a member of the Council and International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Swedish Environment and Climate Data Center, Chairman of the Judging Committee of the Stockholm Water Prize, and Director of the Earth Sciences Division of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He served as a lead author and coordinating lead author for Working Group I of the IPCC Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports, and as an editor for several international academic journals.
Prof. Renzhong Guo is a professor and doctor in geographic information engineering, and an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and International Eurasian Academy of Sciences. In recent years, Prof. Guo has led the team to focus on the research and development of smart city platform technology based on virtual city environment and urban big data, which is the most frontier direction of geographic information technology.