LIU Yang
Female, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Master Tutor.
Date of Birth: 05/09/1987
E-mail: minipig6@163.com
Fax: (+86) 0871-65920530
Office Tel.: (+86) 0871-65920508
Educationand working experience
Aug. 2017 – present: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology.
Dec. 2015 – Aug. 2017:Lecturer, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology.
Sep. 2011 – Oct. 2015:Ph.D., Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Faculty of Science, Leiden University (the Netherlands).
Sep. 2005 – Jul. 2011:B.E., M.E., Department of Agricultural Architecture and Environmental Engineering, College of Water Resources & Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University.
Research interests and expertise
1. Ecotoxicology
2. Chemical risk assessment
3. Fate and environmental behavior
4. Nanomaterials, biochar ,metal mixtures
Main research projects
1. Effects of natural organic matters on the dispersion and dissolution of CuO nanoparticles in aqueous phase (Project leader). 2016 – 2019.
2. Effects of engineered nanomaterials on soil microbial diversity (Project leader). 2016 –2018.
3. Dissolution of CuO nanoparticles in the presence of dissolved organic matters (Project leader). 2018 – 2020.
Representative publications
1. Liu Y., Vijver M.G., Pan B.,Peijnenburg W.J.G.M., 2017. Toxicity models of metal mixtures established on the basis of “additivity” and “interactions”. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 11(2), 10.
2. Liu Y., Baas J., Peijnenburg W.J.G.M.,Vijver M.G., 2016. Evaluating the combined toxicity of Cu and ZnO nanoparticles: utility of the concept of additivity and a nested experimental design. Environmental Science &Technology 50(10), 5328-5337.
3. Liu Y., Vijver M.G., Qiu H., Baas J.,Peijnenburg W.J.G.M., 2015. Statistically significant deviations from additivity: What do they mean in assessing toxicity of mixtures? Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety122, 37-44.
4. Qiu H., VijverM.G., He E., Liu Y., Wang P., XiaB., Smolders E., Versieren L., Peijnenburg W.J.G.M., 2015. Incorporating bioavailability into toxicity assessment of Cu-Ni, Cu-Cd, and Ni-Cd mixtures with the extended biotic ligand model and the WHAM-Ftox approach. Environmental Science & Pollution Research 22(23), 19213-19223.
5. Liu Y., Vijver M.G., PeijnenburgW.J.G.M., 2014. Comparing three approaches in extending biotic ligand models to predict the toxicity of binary metal mixtures (Cu–Ni, Cu–Zn and Cu–Ag) to lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). Chemosphere 112, 282-288.
6. Liu Y., Vijver M.G., PeijenenburgW.J.G.M., 2014. Impacts of major cations (K+, Na+, Ca2+,Mg2+) and protons on toxicity predictions of nickel and cadmium to lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) using exposure models. Ecotoxicology 23(3),385-395.
