LIU Tongxian
Title: Ph.D.
Email: txliu@nwsuaf.edu.cn
        tongxianliu@yahoo.com
Tong-Xian Liu, or ‘T.-X.’ as called by his friends and colleagues, obtained his B.S. degree in plant protection from Shandong Agricultural University in China, M.S. degree in entomology from Virginia Tech at Blacksburg, Virginia, and Ph.D. in entomology from University of Georgia at Athens. He spent four years as a post-doc in University of Florida. He joined Texas A&M in 1997 as an Assistant Professor working on vegetable IPM, and promoted to Associate Professor in 2001 and Full Professor in 2005. He is currently National Distinguished Professor of China, Professor of Entomology, Director of Key Laboratory of Applied Entomology, and Dean of the College of Plant Protection at Northwest A&F University at Yangling, China. His research focuses on IPM of major crops, chemical ecology, tritrophic interactions, biorational and biological control of pest insects.
He is the Editor of Journal of Insect Science, Associate Editor of Subtropical Plant Science and member of editorial boards of Insect Science, Biopesticides International, Acta Entomologia Sinica, Pest Management in Horticulture Ecosystem, Acta Phytoparasitica, Journal of Invasive Species, and Chinese Journal of Applied Entomology.
He has been an ESA member since 1988 and attended all but one ESA annual meetings. He is also member in many other professional societies and organizations. He has served numerous grant review panels, including Department of Food and Agriculture of California and University of California, USDA-NRI CREES, Alexander von Humbolt-Stifung Foundation, China National Natural Science Foundation, The Netherlands’ TechnologieChina National Natural Science Foundation; 2005 US-Israel Foundation - BARD proposal, USDA NRU CRP, North Carolina BioTechnology Center and North Carolina State University, Science and Technology Development Program, USDA (ARS, APHIS), USDA Special IPM Program. He has trained more than 20 graduate students and postdoc research scientists, and many of them have moved up to key posts in their related fields.
He has published more than 161 refereed journal articles published in Annual Review of Entomology, PLoS One, Biological Control, BioControl, HortScience, Environmental Entomology, Journal of Economic Entomology, and many other international journals. He also edited 3 books and wrote more than 200 educational, technical and extension articles. He has taught horticulture entomology, agricultural entomology and biological control to undergraduate and graduate students in several universities.