Prof.dr.ir. Gang Liu

Profile

I finished my PhD at Sanitary Engineering, TUDelft in April 2013. Afterwards, I shared my time at TUDelft and Oasen Drinkwater as researcher. Since July 2016, I appointed as part-time assistant professor at Sanitary Engineering, continuing work as senior researcher at Oasen Drinkwater. From November 2018, I have taken the full time position at Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Now, I am appointed as Professor, team leader, deputy director of Key Lab of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I am engaged in strengthen the scientific collaboration on water related topics between China and the Netherlands. As honoured part time assistant professor and PhD supervisor at Sanitary Engineering, with the Supported from the cooperation between China and the Netherlands (e.g. NSFC-NWO, China-EU, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, CSC), I am co-supervising several PhD students with Prof. Gertjan Medema, Prof. Luuk Rietveld, Prof. Mark van Loosdrecht and Prof. Walter van der Meer on the microbial ecology of water purification and distribution.

Research

I am especially interested in topics on water and health, microbial ecology for water purification, biological stability during distribution. The particles and particle-associated bacteria are one of my key research line, which has been running since 2008. I have established the integral concept of microbial ecology in drinking water distribution system including four phases of water, suspended particles, loose deposits and biofilm.

  1. Gang Liu*, Ya Zhang, Xinlei Liu, Frederik Hammes, Wen-Tso Liu, Gertjan Medema, Peter Wessels, Walter van der Meer; Environmental Science and Technology, 2020, 360-Degree Distribution of Biofilm Quantity and Community in an Operational Unchlorinated Drinking Water Distribution Pipe, 54(9), 5619-5628;
  2. Lihua Chen, Fangqiong Ling, Geo Bakker, Wen-Tso Liu, Gertjan Medema, Walter van der Meer, Gang Liu*; Water Research, 2020, Assessing the transition effects in a drinking water distribution system caused by changing supply water quality: an indirect approach by characterizing suspended solids,168, 115159;
  3. Gang Liu*, Ya Zhang, Ed van der Mark, Aleksandra Magic-Knezev, Ameet Pinto, Tom van den Bogert, Wen-Tso Liu, WGJ van der Meer, Gertjan Medema, Water Research, 2018, Assessing the origin of bacteria in tap water and distribution system in an unchlorinated drinking water system by SourceTracker using microbial community fingerprints, 138, 86-96;
  4. Gang Liu*, Ya Zhang, Willem Jan Knibbe, Cuijie Feng, Wen-Tso Liu, Gertjan Medema, Walter G.J. van der Meer, Water Research, 2017, Potential impacts of changing supply-water quality on drinking water distribution: A review, 116, 135-148;
  5. Gang Liu*, Yu Tao, Ya Zhang, Maarten Lut, Willem Jan Knibbe, Paul van der Wielen, Wen-Tso Liu, Gertjan Medema, Walter G.J.van der Meer, Water Research, 2017, Hotspots for selected metal elements and microbes accumulation and the corresponding water quality deterioration potential in an unchlorinated drinking water distribution system, 124, 435-445;
  6. Gang Liu*, Geo Bakker, Sheng Li, Jan HG Vreeburg, Jasper Verberk, Gertjan Medema, Wen-Tso Liu, Hans JC van Dijk, Environmental Science and Technology, 2014, Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial communities in unchlorinated drinking water distribution systems: an integral study of bulk water, suspended solids, loose deposits, and pipe wall biofilm, 48 (10), 5467-5476;
  7. Gang Liu*, Maarten Lut, Jasper Verberk, Hans van Dijk; Water Research, 2013, A comparison of additional treatment processes to limit particle accumulation and microbial growth during drinking water distribution, 47 (8), 2719-2728;
  8. Gang Liu*, Fangqiong Ling, Aleksandra Magic-Knezev, Wen-Tso Liu, Jasper Verberk, Hans van Dijk, Water Research, 2013, Quantification and Identification of particle associated bacteria in unchlorinated drinking water from three treatment plants by cultivation-independent methods, 47(10), 3523-3533;

Gang Liu

Visiting professor