PERSONAL DETAILS

Name:  Kaihua Liao 

Position:  Associate Professor  

Postal Address: 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China  

Telephone:   +86-25-86882119 (office)  

E-mail:           khliao@niglas.ac.cn 

Education 

Sep 2009 – Jun 2012: Doctor of Science in Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing University, China  

Sep 2006 – Jun 2009: Master of Environmental Science, Qingdao University, China 

Sep 2002 – Jun 2006: Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, China 

Employment 

Dec 2017 - : Associate Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences   

Jul 2014 - Nov 2017: Assistant Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

Jul 2012 – Jun 2014: Post-doctoral Researcher, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE 

Dr. Liao’s major research interests include hydrologic modeling, uncertainty analysis, temporal and spatial variability of soils and pedotransfer functions. 

AWARDS  

2014: Awarded the China Postdoctoral Science Special Foundation (RMB 150,000) 

2013: Awarded the China Postdoctoral Science General Foundation (RMB 80,000) 

2011: Awarded the Post-graduate Direct Scholarship by Nanjing University (RMB 1,000) 

2010: Awarded the Post-graduate Direct Scholarship by Nanjing University (RMB 1,000) 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

2014 

1、Liao, K., Xu, F., Zheng, J., et al. 2014. Using different multimodel ensemble approaches to simulate soil moisture in a forest site with six traditional pedotransfer functions. Environmental Modelling & Software, 57: 27–32.  

2、Liao, K., Xu, S., Wu, J., et al. 2014. Using support vector machines to predict cation exchange capacity of different soil horizons in Qingdao City, eastern China. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 177(5): 775–782.  

3、Liao, K., Xu, S., Wu, J., et al. 2014. Uncertainty analysis for large-scale prediction of the van Genuchten soil water retention parameters with pedotransfer functions. Soil Research, 52(5): 431-442.  

4、Liao, K., Zhu, Q., Doolittle, J., 2014. Temporal stability of apparent soil electrical conductivity measured by electromagnetic induction techniques. Journal of Mountain Science, 11: 98–109.  

5、Zhu, Q., Nie, X., Zhou, X., Liao, K., et al. 2014. Soil moisture response to rainfall at different topographic positions along a mixed land-use hillslope. Catena, 119: 61–70. 

6、Li, Q., Zhu, Q., Zheng, J., Liao, K., et al. 2014. Soil moisture response to rainfall in forestland and vegetable plot in Taihu Lake Basin, China. Chinese Geographical Science, doi: 10.1007/s11769-014-0715-0. 

2013 

7、Liao, K., Xu, S., Wu, J., et al. 2013. Spatial estimation of surface soil texture using remote sensing data. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 59: 488–500.  

2012 

8、Zhu, Q., Liao, K., Xu, Y., et al. 2012. Monitoring and prediction of soil moisture spatial-temporal variations from a hydropedological perspective: a review. Soil Research, 50: 625–637. 

2011 and before 

9、Liao, K., Xu, S., Wu, J., et al. 2011. Assessing soil water retention characteristics and their spatial variability using pedotransfer functions. Pedosphere, 21: 413–422. 

10、Liao, K., Xu, S., Wu, J., et al. 2011. Cokriging of soil cation exchange capacity using the first principal component derived from soil physico-chemical properties. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 10: 1246–1253.