2017年9月—           中国科学院武汉植物园湿地生态学科组，研究员； 

2016年4月—2017年4月  美国University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee，访问学者； 

2011年9月－2017年8月  中国科学院武汉植物园湿地生态学科组，副研究员； 

2008年7月－2011年8月  中国科学院武汉植物园湿地生态学科组，助理研究员； 

2003年9月－2008年6月  中国科学院研究生院，生态学专业，博士学位； 

1999年9月－2003年6月  江西农业大学林学院，林学专业，学士学位； 

近期以河流、水库和湖泊等内陆湿地为研究对象，开展以下几方面的基础研究、技术开发以及工程示范工作。 

1. 氮循环及反硝化脱氮技术 

2. 环境污染及其生态效应 

3. 植被格局、动态和恢复 

《Frontiers in Environmental Science》、《PLOS ONE》等国际期刊Academic/ Review Editor； 

《Environmental Science & Technology》、《Water Research》、《Global Change Biology》等SCI期刊Reviewer. 

10篇代表作：

1. Ma L, Jiang X, Liu G, Yao L, Liu W*, Pan Y, Zuo Y. 2020. Environmental factors and microbial diversity and abundance jointly regulate soil nitrogen and carbon biogeochemical processes in Tibetan wetlands. Environmental Science & Technology, 54: 3267–3277.

2. Yang Y, Li Z, Song W, Du L, Ye C, Zhao B, Liu W*, Deng D, Pan Y, Lin H, Cao X. 2019. Metagenomic insights into the abundance and composition of resistance genes in aquatic environments: Influence of stratification and geography. Environment International, 127: 371–380.

3. Yang Y, Liu G, Song W, Ye C, Lin H, Li Z, Liu W*. 2019. Plastics in the marine environment are reservoirs for antibiotic and metal resistance genes. Environment International, 123: 79–86.

4. Yang Y, Liu G, Ye C, Liu W*. 2019. Bacterial community and climate change implication affected the diversity and abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Journal of hazardous materials, 361: 283–293.

5. Liu W, Jiang X, Zhang Q, Li F, Liu G. 2018. Has submerged vegetation loss altered sediment denitrification, N2O production and denitrifying microbial communities in subtropical lakes? Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32: 1195–1207.

6. Liu W, Yao L, Jiang X, Guo L, Cheng X, Liu G. 2018. Sediment denitrification in Yangtze lakes is mainly influenced by environmental conditions but not biological communities. Science of the Total Environment, 616-617: 978–987.

7. Yao L, Cheng C, Liu G, Liu W*. 2018. Sediment nitrogen cycling rates and microbial abundance along a submerged vegetation gradient in a eutrophic lake. Science of the Total Environment, 616: 899–907.

8. Xiong Z, Guo L, Zhang Q, Liu G, Liu W*. 2017. Edaphic conditions regulate denitrification directly and indirectly by altering denitrifier abundance in wetlands along the Han River, China. Environmental Science & Technology, 51: 5483–5491.

9. Yang Y#, Liu W#, Xu C, Wei B, Wang J. 2017. Antibiotic resistance genes in lakes from middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China: Effect of land use and sediment characteristics. Chemosphere, 178: 19–25.

10. Liu W, Liu G, Liu H, Song Y, Zhang Q. 2013. Subtropical reservoir shorelines have reduced plant species and functional richness compared with adjacent riparian wetlands. Environmental Research Letters, 8: 044007.