I got a PhD degree in human evolutionary biology from the University of Sheffield in 2011. After that, I did two years of post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, before joining Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014.
I am currently doing research in two areas of evolutionary demography: 1) causes and consequences of nuptiality transition to the European marriage pattern in Asia; 2) evolutionary foundations of low fertility in contemporary human societies and relevance to fertility policies.
Contact information
Address: The Institute for Population & Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xianning West Road 28, Xi’an 710049, China
Tel: +86(0)-29-82668384
Email: jh930.liu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn; liujianghua@tsinghua.org.cn
Education experience
2007~2011, PhD research in Human Evolutionary Biology, The University of Sheffield, UK
Thesis Title: Evolutionary foundation of life-history shifts during the recent demographic transitions in humans
Supervisor: Virpi Lummaa
PhD degree was conferred in December, 2011
2002~2005, MEng research in Environmental Biology, Tsinghua University, China
MEng degree was conferred in July, 2005
1998~2002, BEng study in Environmental Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China
BEng degree was conferred in July, 2002
Work experience
2014~, Associate Professor (tenure-track), the Institute for Population & Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
2011~2013, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
2005~2007, Instructor for undergraduate students majoring in Environmental Science, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, China
Teaching experience
2015 Social Statistics (lecture)
2014 Applied Statistics (lecture & practice)
2007 Ecology (lecture & field practice)
Environmental Engineering (lecture, lab & field practice)
2006 Descriptive Geometry (lecture & practice)
Ecology (lecture & field practice)
Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering (lecture)
Grants
2014–2015: The fertility survey and evaluation of implementation of the selective two-child policy in Xi’an city, granted by Xi’an Municipal Government
2015–2016: The fertility survey and evaluation of implementation of the two-child policy in Xi’an city, granted by Xi’an Municipal Government
Publications in recent 5 years
1.Liu, J. (2015) Cohort marriage kinetics in the context of migration, with a case study of Japan, 1920–1940. Journal of Biosocial Science (doi: 10.1017/S0021932015000437)
2.Liu, J. & Lummaa, V. (2014) An evolutionary approach to change of status–fertility relationship in human fertility transition. Behavioral Ecology 25, 102-109 (doi:10.1093/beheco/art091)
3.Liu, J., Rotkirch, A. & Lummaa, V. (2012) Maternal risk of breeding failure remained low throughout the demographic transitions in fertility and age at first reproduction in Finland. PLoS ONE 7, e34898. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034898)
4.Liu, J. & Lummaa, V. (2011) Age at first reproduction and probability of reproductive failure in women. Evolution & Human Behavior 32, 433–443. (doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.10.007)
Governmental consulting reports
The fertility survey and evaluation of implementation of the selective two-child policy in Xi’an city, 2014
Invited talks
Liu, J. “Cohort marriage kinetics in the context of migration, with a case study of Japan, 1920–1940” on the XJTU-UNSW workshop on “Population and social policies”, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, November 3rd, 2015.
Liu, J. “Evolutionary foundation of life-history shifts during human demographic transition” at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, June 21st, 2011
Liu, J. “Risk of breeding failure and shifts of female life-history traits during demographic transitions” on the workshop “Contemporary childbearing and evolutionary theory” at The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, March 31st-April 1st, 2011
Memberships
Evolutionary Demography Society
Chinese Animal Behavior Society