**Dengfeng Liu**

Dr. Dengfeng Liu is working as a Professor at the School of Water Resources and Hydropower, Xi'an University of Technology, in China. His research primarily focuses on watershed hydrological modeling, hydrological models, ecohydrological modeling, socio-hydrological modeling, and ecohydrology. He proposed the ecohydrological evolution model on riparian vegetation (ERV model) in hyperarid regions by coupling groundwater movement and vegetation dynamics to critically examine the state-of-the-art assumptions and dynamic equations used in the evolution study of an ecohydrological system. He developed a simplified conceptual socio-hydrological evolution model based on logistic growth curves for the Tarim River basin in western China, and this was used to illustrate the explanatory power of such a co-evolutionary model and improve our understanding of the co-evolution and self-organization of socio-hydrological systems driven by interactions and feedback operating at different scales. Currently, he is working on socio-hydrological modeling at the watershed scale to investigate the long-term impact of environmental changes.
