Yang Liu

Yang Liu is a Lecturer at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London (2019–2024). His research spans two key areas: failure mechanisms of metallic materials using crystal plasticity modelling and water systems engineering, with a focus on sustainability and integrated modelling. He holds an Academic Visitor affiliation at Imperial College’s Faculty of Engineering.

Research interests include water quality management, socio-hydrological phenomena, resilience assessment frameworks, and the application of nature-based solutions. He has developed the WSIMOD Python package for simulating water systems and contributed to global infrastructure sustainability studies.

His work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, blending hydrological models, urban-rural coordination, and meta-modelling to address water management challenges. He has authored numerous papers on topics such as constructed wetlands, catchment classification, and cost-efficient resilience strategies.