Hai-Ying Liu
Senior Scientist
+47 63 89 80 48
+47 984 72 699
Environmental Impacts and Sustainability
Kjeller
hyl@nilu.no
Dr. Hai-Ying Liu, senior scientist at NILU, combines ecological expertise with a passion for sustainable urban development. She holds an MSc in Environmental Protection from Inner Mongolia University, China, and a PhD in Environmental Biology from the University of Oslo, Norway.
Dr. Liu specializes in the monitoring and assessment of nature-based solutions to enhance environmental quality and public health. Her approach is both interdisciplinary and integrative, tackling the complex challenges of climate change, urban development, and public health. She is particularly focused on fostering community engagement and utilizing multi-actor participatory methods to drive environmental behaviour changes and promote health.
Dr. Liu started at NILU with a postdoctoral fellowship between 2007 and 2008, focusing on the impacts of climate change and air pollution on forest biodiversity. During this time, she also played key role in managing and coording several EU projects. Currently, her work is driven by a vision to integrate environmental quality with urban living, aiming to transform cities into resilient and healthy spaces for future generations. As a senior scientist, Dr. Liu actively leads and support coordination of EU projects and proposals. She also contributes her expertise to NILU’s grants office and sever as an evaluator for both EU and national proposals and projects.
Hai-Ying Liu has 40 publications at NILU:
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NatureScape – Pioneering Urban Sustainability through Nature-Based Solutions
NatureScape project, in an ambitious initiative led by NILU aimed at transforming urban environments into sustainable and resilient spaces through the strategic integration of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Funded by national […]
User-driven Health risk Assessment Services and Innovative ADAPTation options against Threats from Heatwaves, Air Pollution, Wildfire Emission and Pollen (healthRiskADAPT)
Transformative adaptation is gaining recognition as the appropriate response to climate change as the current adaptive measures reach their limits. In addressing health risks associated with heat waves, air pollution, […]
GRC pilot – Enhancing Climate, Air Quality, Well-being, and Sustainable Development Goals (MASSEV)
Alternative title: GRC-pilot: Overvåking, kartlegging og modellering av luftkvalitet for bærekraftige miljøer i byer og samfunn Overview The MASSEV project is a pioneering initiative designed to enhance health, urban living, and […]
ETC Human health and the environment (ETC HE)
The European Topic Centre on Human Health and the Environment (ETC HE) is a Consortium of 10 partners with expertise in air quality, air pollution, industrial emissions, chemicals, noise and […]
Improved energy efficiency of school buildings in Zulawy Wislane (Green Żuławy)
Climate change is manifested through rising sea levels, heat waves, forest fires, droughts, floods and increasing temperatures. They all affect ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as economic growth, infrastructure, and […]
Engaging citizens in food diversity in cities (SmartFood)
“Grow your own food in the corridor of your building, reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emission, the waste of food and energy and transportation costs! Improve your physical health by changing […]
Cross-cutting topics on urban sustainable development and SDGs (Urban SDGs)
This SIS-project is designed in a close collaboration between NILU and NIVA with an overall objective to develop a methodological framework which can help with structure thinking and provide a […]
Schools of a good climate – construction of educational green zones in primary schools no. 1 and no. 4 in Kozienice to mitigate climate change and adapt to its effects (GreenZone)
The GeenZone project aims to i) strengthen the resilience in the schools to the negative effects of climate change; ii) raise students and teachers' awareness of climate change; and iii) […]
Knowledge support for the European Climate and Health Observatory: infectious diseases and ground-level ozone (ClimaObs)
The European Climate and Health Observatory (Observatory) is developed in a partnership of several European institutions and organizations. EEA maintains the Observatory, which is hosted on the European climate adaptation […]
PEER Research on Sustainable Development Goals: Tackling and Managing Risks with SDGs (PEER-TRISD)
The Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER) as a network excels in the research on the biophysical and socio-ecological impacts linked to the implementation of the SDGs and the associated […]
Collective awareness platform for outdoor air pollution (hackAIR)
The overall objective of hackAIR is to develop and pilot test an open platform that will enable communities of citizens to easily set up air quality monitoring networks and engage […]
Development of sensor-based Citizens’ Observatory Community for improving quality of life in cities (CITI-SENSE)
The CITI-SENSE project developed and tested components of environmental monitoring and information systems based on innovative and novel Earth Observation capabilities. The applications focused on the citizens’ immediate environment regarding […]
Dr. Hai-Ying Liu, senior scientist at NILU, combines ecological expertise with a passion for sustainable urban development. She holds an MSc in Environmental Protection from Inner Mongolia University, China, and a PhD in Environmental Biology from the University of Oslo, Norway.
Dr. Liu specializes in the monitoring and assessment of nature-based solutions to enhance environmental quality and public health. Her approach is both interdisciplinary and integrative, tackling the complex challenges of climate change, urban development, and public health. She is particularly focused on fostering community engagement and utilizing multi-actor participatory methods to drive environmental behaviour changes and promote health.
Dr. Liu started at NILU with a postdoctoral fellowship between 2007 and 2008, focusing on the impacts of climate change and air pollution on forest biodiversity. During this time, she also played key role in managing and coording several EU projects. Currently, her work is driven by a vision to integrate environmental quality with urban living, aiming to transform cities into resilient and healthy spaces for future generations. As a senior scientist, Dr. Liu actively leads and support coordination of EU projects and proposals. She also contributes her expertise to NILU’s grants office and sever as an evaluator for both EU and national proposals and projects.
Hai-Ying Liu has 40 publications at NILU:
2025
2025
2024
2024
2024
2024
2023
2023
2023
2023
2023
2023
2023
2022
2022
2021
2020
2020
2019
2019
NatureScape – Pioneering Urban Sustainability through Nature-Based Solutions
NatureScape project, in an ambitious initiative led by NILU aimed at transforming urban environments into sustainable and resilient spaces through the strategic integration of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Funded by national […]
User-driven Health risk Assessment Services and Innovative ADAPTation options against Threats from Heatwaves, Air Pollution, Wildfire Emission and Pollen (healthRiskADAPT)
Transformative adaptation is gaining recognition as the appropriate response to climate change as the current adaptive measures reach their limits. In addressing health risks associated with heat waves, air pollution, […]
GRC pilot – Enhancing Climate, Air Quality, Well-being, and Sustainable Development Goals (MASSEV)
Alternative title: GRC-pilot: Overvåking, kartlegging og modellering av luftkvalitet for bærekraftige miljøer i byer og samfunn Overview The MASSEV project is a pioneering initiative designed to enhance health, urban living, and […]
ETC Human health and the environment (ETC HE)
The European Topic Centre on Human Health and the Environment (ETC HE) is a Consortium of 10 partners with expertise in air quality, air pollution, industrial emissions, chemicals, noise and […]
Improved energy efficiency of school buildings in Zulawy Wislane (Green Żuławy)
Climate change is manifested through rising sea levels, heat waves, forest fires, droughts, floods and increasing temperatures. They all affect ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as economic growth, infrastructure, and […]
Engaging citizens in food diversity in cities (SmartFood)
“Grow your own food in the corridor of your building, reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emission, the waste of food and energy and transportation costs! Improve your physical health by changing […]
Cross-cutting topics on urban sustainable development and SDGs (Urban SDGs)
This SIS-project is designed in a close collaboration between NILU and NIVA with an overall objective to develop a methodological framework which can help with structure thinking and provide a […]
Schools of a good climate – construction of educational green zones in primary schools no. 1 and no. 4 in Kozienice to mitigate climate change and adapt to its effects (GreenZone)
The GeenZone project aims to i) strengthen the resilience in the schools to the negative effects of climate change; ii) raise students and teachers' awareness of climate change; and iii) […]
Knowledge support for the European Climate and Health Observatory: infectious diseases and ground-level ozone (ClimaObs)
The European Climate and Health Observatory (Observatory) is developed in a partnership of several European institutions and organizations. EEA maintains the Observatory, which is hosted on the European climate adaptation […]
PEER Research on Sustainable Development Goals: Tackling and Managing Risks with SDGs (PEER-TRISD)
The Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER) as a network excels in the research on the biophysical and socio-ecological impacts linked to the implementation of the SDGs and the associated […]
Collective awareness platform for outdoor air pollution (hackAIR)
The overall objective of hackAIR is to develop and pilot test an open platform that will enable communities of citizens to easily set up air quality monitoring networks and engage […]
Development of sensor-based Citizens’ Observatory Community for improving quality of life in cities (CITI-SENSE)
The CITI-SENSE project developed and tested components of environmental monitoring and information systems based on innovative and novel Earth Observation capabilities. The applications focused on the citizens’ immediate environment regarding […]