Yang LIU is a Professor at National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Professor Liu got his Ph.D. in Washington University in St. Louis and was a Urey fellow at Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston. Professor LIU serves as a team member of a few China’s space exploration missions including Chang’E series and Tianwen-1 mission. He was a co-investigator on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, and he also participated in NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission and ESA’s Mars Express mission. His research field is focused on understanding the formation and evolution of planetary surfaces by integrating remote sensing observations, quantitatively theoretical modeling, and laboratory spectroscopy, using quantitative remote sensing to understand the material composition of the surfaces of Mars, the Moon, and small bodies, and using laboratory spectroscopy to study terrestrial and extraterrestrial samples. He has published more than 50 papers in high level academic journals including Nature Astronomy and Science Advances.