Dr. Yuan Liu graduated from the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015 with a doctorate degree in soil science. She then worked in the unconventional water resources security utilization team at the Institute of Farmland Irrigation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. She has expertise in the research of rhizospheric electrochemistry and chemical behavior of nutrients and pollutants such as heavy metals, antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance genes during farmland irrigation with unconventional water resources such as livestock wastewater and reclaimed water. She found that long-term reclaimed water irrigation had no significant effect on antibiotic resistance gene composition in greenhouse soil. She is also interested in the remediation of heavy metal-contaminated soils and the reduction of greenhouse gases. In addition, she advocates considering physical properties such as soil structure when assessing soil microbial activity.