Fulai Liu is a professor in Crop Stress Physiology at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Currently, he is group leader of Crop Stress Physiology and has previously been Head of the Educational Programme in Water and Environment at the Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research. His research aims to improve crop yield, quality, and resource use efficiency in the field and in greenhouse production systems by exploiting plant adaptation mechanisms to environmental perturbations in the face of climate change. He has contributed significantly in exploring the role of abscisic acid in crop drought adaptation and its exploitation in developing mechanistic stomatal conductance models and novel partial root-zone drying irrigation strategies for water saving in different crops. Recently, his group elucidated the role of stress priming and cross-stress tolerance in plants and reported a transgenerational effect of elevated CO2 concentration on drought adaptation and grain quality in wheat. By taking advantage of modern genotyping and advanced phenotyping technologies, the research group will determine the genotypic diversity of physiological mechanisms of crop plants' responses to multiple abiotic stresses and develop novel management strategies to enhance crop resilience to climate change scenarios.