2005年毕业于中国海洋大学海洋地质专业，博士学位，自然资源部海洋地质与成矿作用重点实验室副主任，研究员。长期从事海洋地质调查与多指标古海洋环境重建工作。2003年和2009年分别在丹麦奥胡斯大学地球科学系和意大利海洋学与实验地球物理学研究院进行了合作交流。近年来，围绕北冰洋和西北太平洋边缘海沉积特征和古海洋记录研究，作为海洋地质调查的负责人先后参加了4次北极科学考察、4次中俄联合调查和1次意大利南极罗斯海调查，在日本海、鄂霍次克海、白令海和北冰洋楚科奇海、加拿大海盆、北欧海、拉布拉多海以及南极罗斯海等海域获得了大量的研究样品。在后续的研究工作中，紧紧围绕极地前沿科学问题，在白令海、北冰洋和南极罗斯海开展了多尺度、多指标海洋沉积学研究，系统编制了北极考察海域海洋地质考察图集，对考察海域海底沉积物分布规律、物质来源、海冰演化历史、古环境古气候演化特点等有了较为深入的认识。主持完成国家自然科学基金4项和极地专项北极海域海洋地质考察专题以及多项国家专项调查课题，发表论文190余篇，培养研究生10余名。获中国极地考察先进个人荣誉称号（2017年），海洋工程科学技术奖一等奖（2016年，排名第三；2019年，排名第五）、海洋科学技术奖一等奖（2016年，排名第四；2022，排名第二）。
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12. tengfei song, claude hillaire-marcel*, anne de vernal, yanguang liu*, weiguo wang, yuanhui huang. (2022) a reassessment of nd-isotopes and clay minerals as tracers of the holocene pacific water flux through bering strait. marine geology, 443, 106698. .（通讯作者）
13. zhengquan yao, yanguang liu*, xuefa shi, xun gong, sergey a. gorbarenko, aleksandr a. bosin, jingjing gao, yazhi bai, hui zhang, anqi wang. (2022) paleoproductivity variations and implications in the subarctic northwestern pacific since mis 7: geochemical evidence. global and planetary change, 209, 103730. （通讯作者）
14. hongyuan zheng, minghong cai, chao yang, yuan gao, zhiyi chen, yanguang liu*. (2022).terrigenous export and ocean currents’ diffusion of organophosphorus flame retardants along china’s adjacent seas. environmental pollution, 299, 118873.（通讯作者）
15. kaiyan xiao, zhibo lu, chao yang, song zhao, hongyuan zheng, yuan gao, chalapan kaluwin, yanguang liu*, minghong cai. occurrence, distribution and risk assessment of organophosphate ester flame retardants and plasticizers in surface seawater of the west pacific. marine pollution bulletin, 2021, 170: 112691. (corresponding author)
16. li li, xiaojing wang, yijun ren, huaqiang su, limin hu, gang yang, zhongqiao li, aleksandr a. bosin, anatolii s. astakhov, jianfang chen, yanguang liu, xuefa shi. enrichment of trace metals (v, cu, co, ni, and mo) in arctic sediments from siberian arctic shelves to the basin. journal of geophysical research: oceans, 2021, 126, e2020jc016960. (corresponding author)
17. sha longbin, li dongling, liu yanguang, wu bin, wu yanni, knudsen karen luise, li zhongqiao, xu hao. 2020. biogenic silica concentration as a marine primary productivity proxy in the holsteinsborg dyb, west greenland, during the last millennium. acta oceanologica sinica, 39(9): 78–85, doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1648-3(corresponding author)
18. jianxing liu, xuefa shi, yanguang liu, qingsong liu, yan liu, qiang zhang, shulan ge, jinhua li. a thick negative polarity anomaly in a sediment core from the central arctic ocean: geomagnetic excursion versus reversal. journal of geophysical research: solid earth, 2019, 124, 10687–10703. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb018073. corresponding author
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20. sergey a. gorbarenko, xuefa shi, yanguang liu, yuriy p. vasilenko, elena a. yanchenko, aleksandr n. derkachev, aleksandr a. bosin, tatyana a. velivetskaya, galina yu. malakhova, jianjun zou, ivan s. kirichenko, antonina v. artemova, olga yu. psheneva. (2022) iceberg discharge events in the northwest pacific and related sequence of kamchatka glaciations over the last 190 kyr. quaternary science reviews, 278, 107349.
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27. zhengquan yao, xuefa shi, yanguang liu, selvaraj kandasamy, shuqing qiao, xiaoyan li, yazhi bai, aimei zhu. sea-level and climate signatures recorded in orbitally-forced continental margin deposits over the last 1 myr: new perspectives from the bohai sea. palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2020, 550: 109736.
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30. wenjing fu, yuanzhi qi, yanguang liu, xuchen wang, ellen m. druffel, xiaomei xu, peng ren, shuwen sun, di fan. production of ancient dissolved organic carbon in arctic ocean sediment: a pathway of carbon cycling in the extreme environment. geophysical research letters, 2020, 47, e2020gl087119. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl087119
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35. 吴东, 刘焱光, jon eiriksson, 等, 3万年以来挪威海南部冰岛－苏格兰溢流变化及其对海冰活动的响应. 第四纪研究, 2019, 39(4): 845-862. （通讯作者）
36. 赵嵩，董林森，王湘芹，吴东，白亚之，刘焱光. 北冰洋门捷列夫海岭富锰棕色层稀土元素组成特征与来源初步分析. 海洋学报, 2020, 42(7): 78-92.
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38. 粟华强，王小静，任艺君，刘焱光. 北极拉普捷夫海沉积物痕量金属赋存形态及富集机制. 海洋地质与第四纪地质，2022，42(4)：61-72.（通讯作者）
获奖与荣誉
(1) 2006年：崂山地质与古冰川研究。青岛市科学技术奖一等奖 排名5。
(2) 2006年：黄海沉积动力学与古环境演变研究。海洋创新成果奖二等奖 排名4。
(3) 2012年：青岛沿海地区资源环境调查及应用。青岛市科学技术奖一等奖 排名5。
(4) 2016年：我国近海底质调查与研究。海洋科学技术奖一等奖 排名4。
(5) 2016年：我国大河三角洲的脆弱性调查及灾害评估技术研究。海洋工程科学技术奖一等奖 排名3。
(6) 2017年：获“中国极地考察先进个人”荣誉称号。
(7) 2019年：亚洲大陆边缘底质调查研究与发现。海洋工程科学技术奖一等奖 排名5。
(8) 2022年：“冰上丝绸之路”联合科考与发现。海洋科学技术奖一等奖 排名2。
主持项目
1. 国家自然科学基金面上基金项目，末次冰期以来白令海峡开合的沉积记录及模式验证（42176245），2022-2025，主持人。
2. 国家自然科学基金面上基金项目，北冰洋沉积物中磁性矿物及其剩磁记录机制研究（41876070），2019-2022，主持人。
3. 国家自然科学基金面上基金项目：末次冰期以来日本海与兴凯湖古气候演化记录的对比研究(41076038)，2010-2013，主持人。
4. 国家自然科学基金青年基金项目：末次冰期以来日本海表层海水温度与东海的对比研究（40606016），2007-2009，主持人。
5. 山东省重大科技创新工程项目课题：北极西伯利亚陆架海底过程观测及其环境效应研究（2018sdkj0104-3），2018-2021，主持人。
6. 南北极环境综合考察与评估专项—北极海域海洋地质考察专题（chinare-03-02），2012-2017，负责人。
7. 极地国际合作项目：末次冰期以来亚北极大西洋古海洋学纪录：多指标重建与对比（ic201309），2013-2014，负责人。
8. 国家专项国际合作项目：亚洲大陆边缘“源-汇”过程与陆海相互作用（gasi-geoge-03），2015-2019，子专题负责人。
9. 国家自然科学基金重点基金项目：末次冰期以来西北太平洋中高纬度边缘海关键断面古环境演化记录（40431002），2005-2008，主要参加者。
10. 国家自然科学基金国际合作基金项目：晚更新世以来鄂霍次克海、日本海和东海的古环境与生产力变化研究(40710069004)，2008-2011，主要参加者。
11. 国家自然科学基金国际合作基金项目：日本海末次间冰期以来的古环境与古气候演化研究(41420104005)，2015-2019，主要参加者。