Tie Liu has a degree in environmental engineering of the East China University of Science and Technology, a master’s degree in water resources engineering and a doctorate degree in civil engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is a full professor and head of the Space-Earth Observation and Systematic Simulation Lab at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests are hydrological modelling, climate change impact analysis, remotely-sensed data application, land-use change impact analysis, flood risk analysis, and water quality. He is currently involved in two funded projects: “Ecological Water Requirement Accounting and Regulation Technology of River and Lake Systems” and “Water-ecosystem Interaction and Collaborative Management in the Great Lakes Region of Central Asia”.