**Li Jia**

Prof. Dr. Li Jia is a Full Professor and Director of Laboratory for Earth Observation for Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change in the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She received her PhD degree in Environmental Science from Wageningen University of The Netherlands in 2004. Her main research disciplines are quantitative remote sensing and remote sensing applications to hydrometeorology, eco-hydrology, water resources, carbon assimilation, drought process and monitoring, and climate change. She has more than 300 publications, more than 90 of which are peer-reviewed ISI journal papers. She is a member of WCRP/GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP) (since 2019) and IEEE. She is the co-chair of the working group on Drought Monitoring and Evaluation of the AOGEO (Asia-Oceania Group on Earth Observations) (since 2017). She serves as Editor/Associate Editor of numerous academic journals.
