Dr. Jun Liu is the professor and head of the geology division of School of Resources and Environmental Engineering at Hefei University of Technology, China. His current research focuses on the Triassic marine reptiles, but also involves the biotic response of Cenozoic biotas (crocodilians and other large reptiles, radiolarians, grassland ecosystems etc.) to climate change. He is currently expanding his research interests to include the environmental history, biogeography and conservation biology of large reptiles. Dr. Liu studied at China University of Geoscience (Wuhan), Peking University, The University of Hong Kong, University of California (Davis), and The University of Sydney before joining Hefei University of Technology in 2013. He was also a Humboldt visiting fellow at University of Bonn and University of Zürich from 2017 to 2020.