2005年毕业于武汉大学生科院，植物学专业，获理学博士学位；

2017年至今，武汉大学生命科学学院教授。

1.国家自然科学基金面上项目 (31170339), 2012-2015；
2.国家自然科学基金面上项目（30870232), 2009-2011；
3.国家自然科学基金面上项目（30570169), 2006-2008；
4.国家自然科学基金青年项目（31300013), 2002-2004；
另外作为主要研究骨干参加过国家自然科学重点基金和“973”项目，主持重大科技基础专项项目和水专项项目子课题各1项。

代表性论文（Selected Publications;*Corresponding author)
1) Tian Lv, Qiankun He, Yaping Hong, Chunhua Liu* and Dan Yu* （2019）.Effects of water quality adjusted by submerged macrophytes on the richness of the epiphytic algal community. Frontiers in Plant Science.9:1980.doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01980

2）Hongwei Yu, Nan Shen, Dan Yu, Chunhua Liu*(2019). Clonal integration increases growth performance and expansion of Eichhornia crassipes in littoral zones: A simulation study. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 159:13–22.


3) Xiaolong Huang, Ligong Wang, Xin Guan, Yuanyuan Gao,Chunhua Liu*, and Dan Yu (2018).The root structures of 21 aquatic plants in a macrophyte-dominated lake in China. Journal of Plant Ecology, 11:39-46.

4) Tong Wang, Jiangtao Hu, Dan Yu & Chunhua Liu* (2017). Soil type can determine invasion success of Eichhornia crassipes.Hydrobiologia. 788:281–291.

5) Tong Wang, Jiangtao Hu, Linlin Miao, Dan Yu & Chunhua Liu*(2016).The invasive stoloniferous clonal plant Alternanthera philoxeroides outperforms its co-occurring noninvasive functional counterparts in heterogeneous soil environments – invasion implications. Scientific Reports 6:38036 | DOI: 10.1038/srep38036

6) Shufeng Fan，Haihao Yu, Chunhua Liu*, Dan Yu*, Yuqin Han, Ligong Wang. (2015).The effects of complete submergence on morphological and biomass allocation response of invasive plant Alternanthera philoxeroides. Hydrobiologia.746:159 – 169.

7) Chunhua Liu and Dan Yu. 2009.The bud and root sprouting capacity of Alternanthera philoxeroides after over-wintering on sediments of a drained canal. Hydrobiologia. 623:251 – 256.