Maps Make Magic!

Educational Background

Since 10.2025, Visiting Researcher, geoGAZElab, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Since 10.2022, Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics, TUM, Germany

2020.10-2022.06, Master Degree, Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Austria

2020.10-2022.06, Master Degree, Department of Geoinformatics, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic

2019.07-2019.10, Research Assistant, University of Alberta, Canada

2015.08-2020.06, Bachelor Degree, Geographic Information Science, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Working Experience

2024.12 up to now, EIT Urban Mobility Consultancy

2023.12-2024.04, Consultant, AutoNavi (AMap)

2022.07-2022.12, GIS Intern, United Nations Agency - International Fund for Agricultural Development

2021.05-2022.05, Working student, GeoVille Information Systems and Data Processing GmbH

2021.03-2025.01, Writer, Geoawesome

2018.08-2025.02, Earth Observation & Geospatial Industrial Analyst, 36Kr & NIKKEI Asia

Volunteering

2022.03-2024.03, UN Mapper: Coordinate Chinese volunteers group to translate mapping tutorials

2022.09-2024.12, YouthMappers at TU Munich: Founder and President of chapter

2018.12-2019.10, Mapbox China: Completed Chinese tutorials related to Mapbox GL JS for Web apps 

Journal Paper Publications

• Liu, N., Wei, M., Feng, Y., Wang, S., & Meng, L. (2025). Maps as a double-edged trustworthiness elevator for climate (mis)information on social media. International Journal of Digital Earth, 18(1). doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2025.2501245

• Liu, N. and Strobl, J., 2022. Impact of neighborhood features on housing resale prices in Zhuhai (China) based on an (M) GWR model. Big Earth Data, pp.1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2022.2031543

• Wang, S., Liu, B., Feng, Y., Liu, N., & Meng, L. (2025). Seeing through walls: indoor spatial learning with X-ray vision-enabled mixed reality. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 1–21. doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2025.2517605

• He, Y., Pu, H., Liu, N., Zhang, Y. and Sheng, Y., 2022. An Analysis of Food Accessibility of Mountain Cities in China: A Case Study of Chongqing. Applied Sciences, 12(7), p.3236. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12073236

Conferences & Presentations

• Liu, N., Feng, Y., and Meng, L.: Why Maps are More Favored Visuals in Climate Change Newsfeeds on Social Media? Exploring the Influence of User Characteristics, AGILE GIScience Ser., 6, 35, doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-6-35-2025, 2025.

• Liu, N., Wang, S., Xu, W., and Feng, Y. (2025): Evaluating Augmented Reality-based Spatial Learning Assistance for Emergency Escape Training, AGILE 2025 Geo xR Workshop, sites.google.com/view/geo-xr-workshop-agile205/home

• Liu, N., Feng, Y., Wang, S., and Meng, L.: The Impact of Maps on Climate Information Communication: An Empirical User Study on Social Media Trustworthiness, Abstr. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 7, 92, doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-7-92-2024, 2024.

• Liu, N., and Zhuang, L. (2024): An Exploratory Study of Promoting the Crisis Crowdsourcing Mapping Workflow with Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model, Mobile Tartu 2024 Poster Session, mobiletartu.ut.ee/program/

• Liu, N., Liu, B., Feng, Y., & Meng, L. (2023). Comparative User Experiments in Cognitive Pitfalls of Climate Change Information. Abstracts of the ICA, 6, 143. https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-6-143-2023

• Liu, N., Salazar, J., Chen, C., Wang, S., Netek, R., Popelka, S., & Meng, L. (2023). Using Eye-tracking to Evaluate Visual Behaviours on GIS Enhanced Football Animations. Abstracts of the ICA, 6, 144. https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-6-144-2023, 2023.

• Gao, Y., Gella, G. W., & Liu, N. (2022). Assessing the Influences of Band Selection and Pretrained Weights on Semantic-Segmentation-Based Refugee Dwelling Extraction from Satellite Imagery. AGILE: GIScience Series, 3, 36. https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-3-36-2022

• Wang, S., Liu, B., Zhang, C.,Liu, N., & Meng, L. (2023). Visualizing indoor layout for spatial learning using Mixed Reality-based X-ray vision. Abstracts of the ICA, 6, 267. https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-6-267-2023, 2023.

Reviewers

• Information Fusion

• The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2025)

• Annals of GIS

• ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium

Awards and Grants

• Winner of IFRC Solferino Academy MDH Challenge
• IFRC Limitless Academy (Top 10 Final Awardees)
• 1st Place DTN Presentation Award in the DTN pitching session, ElT Urban Mobility Doctoral Training Network 6th Annual Forum
• Best Student Presentation Award & Travel Grant Award at AsiaCarto 2024
• German Cartographic Society (DGfK) Scholarships for EuroCarto 2024
• AGILE 2025 Student Grants
• EIT Urban Mobility Student Entrepreneur Grant
• Honorary award in CYBERCARTOGRAPHY Competition 2022, AGILE, ICA, and ISPRS
• Best paper award in 11th and 13th GeoMundus Conference
• Mapathon Winner of 13th GeoMundus Conference
• Mapbox China Top Developer 2018

Membership

• EIT Urban Mobility - Doctoral Training Network
• NFDI4Earth - Academy fellow
• ICA-CogVis: Member in Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization of the International Cartographic Association
• Conception X cohort 8
• NGC: Member in Working Group Next Generation Cartographers of the International Cartographic Association
• ISPRS WG IV/5: Member in ISPRS Working Group - Geovisualization, Augmented And Virtual Reality
• Young Professionals - Rundertisch GIS
• German Cartographic Society Bayern Section (Sektion Bayern der DGfK e.V.)