Dr. Qun Liu is a professor and academic supervisor in the Laboratory of Fish Population Dynamics, Ocean University of China. He has completed a BS in Fishing Engineering from Ocean College of Shandong in 1984 and an MS in Fisheries Biology and Management from University College of North Wales in 1986 and was awarded Ph.D. in Fish Population Dynamics from University College of North Wales in 1990. He has expertise in fish population dynamics, mathematical and statistical modeling, statistical sampling theory, and Monte Carlo simulation techniques. He is skilled in the analysis of fisheries catches at age data, fisheries' catch–effort data, fisheries' length–frequency data, and estimations of biological reference points for the different harvest strategies. He is the academic supervisor for graduate and post-graduate students in and outside China.