目前主要从事地球生物学（Geobiology）、沉积学和微体古生物学研究，包括：

(1) 地球生物学：研究地质历史中生物演化关键时期生物与环境相互作用过程和机制；

(2) 沉积学：研究沉积过程与沉积环境、沉积旋回与海平面变化、沉积体系演变与全球变化；

(3) 微体古生物学：放射虫、牙形石和微生物化石。

2013~2016 国家自然科学基金面上项目“华南扬子区早奥陶世碳酸盐岩沉积体系的演替机制”

2011~2013 现代古生物学和地层学国家重点实验室开放课题“华南早奥陶世生物礁类型的时空分布研究”

2010-2012 国家自然科学基金面上项目“华南早—中奥陶世海洋生物大辐射事件的地球生物学过程”

2005~2007 国家自然科学基金面上项目“奥陶纪生物大辐射前与二叠纪生物大绝灭后微生物岩的对比研究”

2000-2002 国家自然科学基金青年基金“华北下奥陶统旋回地层学和锶同位素地层学对比研究”

1.Zhang X., Liu J., Wang Y., Rong J., Zhan R., Xu H., Tang, P., 2018. Onset of the middle Telychian (Silurian) clastic marine red beds on the western Yangtze Platform, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 497, 52-65.

2.Ezaki Y, Liu J, Adachi N, Yan Z. 2017. Microbialite development during the protracted inhibition of skeletal-dominated reefs in the Zhangxia Formation (Cambrian Series 3) in Shandong Province, North China. Palaios, 32 (9): 559-571. (SCI) (41272035, 41290260, 41530103)

3.Liang Y, Servais T, Tang P, Liu J, Wang W. 2017. Tremadocian (Early Ordovician) chitinozoan biostratigraphy of South China: An update. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 247(Supplement C): 149-163.

4.Adachi N, Asada Y, Ezaki Y, Liu J. 2017. Stromatolites near the Permian–Triassic boundary in Chongyang, Hubei Province, South China: A geobiological window into palaeo-oceanic fluctuations following the end-Permian extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 475(Supplement C): 55-69.

5.Luan X, Brett C, Zhan R, Liu J, Wu R, Liang Y., 2017. Microfacies analysis of the Lower-Middle Ordovician succession at Xiangshuidong, southwestern Hubei Province, and the drowning and shelf-ramp transition of a carbonate platform in the Yangtze region. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 485(Supplement C): 68-83.

6.Yan Z, Liu J-B*, Sun Y-L, Wang H-F, Huang B-Q. 2017. Sedimentary characteristics and origins of Late Pennsylvanian–Early Permian carbonate mud-mounds at the Shangdan section, Inner Mongolia. Palaeoworld, 26(4): 612-630.

7.Yan Z, Liu J*, Ezaki Y, Adachi N, and Du S. 2017. Stacking patterns and growth models of multiscopic structures within Cambrian Series 3 thrombolites at the Jiulongshan section, Shandong Province, northern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 474, 45-57.

8.唐鹏, 黄冰, 吴荣昌, 樊隽轩, 燕夔, 王光旭, 刘建波, 王怿, 詹仁斌, 戎嘉余. 2017. 论上扬子区上奥陶统大渡河组. 地层学杂志, 41(2): 119-133.

9.孙永超, 刘建波*. 2017. 华南上扬子区奥陶纪特马豆克阶的海平面变化. BEAT365唯一官网学报(自然科学版), 53(1): 66-80.

10.闫振, 刘建波. 2016. 灰泥丘研究综述: 基于内蒙古石炭纪—二叠纪灰泥丘的思考. 地层学杂志, 40(4): 429-438.

11.孙永超, 刘建波*, 李家腾. 浅议上扬子区下奥陶统桐梓组. 地层学杂志, 40(4): 411-419.

12.孙永超, 刘建波. 纹层状细粒碳酸盐岩成因: 以早奥陶世上扬子区习水吼滩剖面为例. 古地理学报, 17(5): 743-758.

13.Xue J., Deng Z., Huang P, Huang K, Benton M. J., Cui Y., Wang D., Liu J., Shen B., Basinger J. F., and Hao S., 2016. Belowground rhizomes in paleosols: The hidden half of an Early Devonian vascular plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(34): 9451-9456.

14.Wu R, and Stouge S, Zhan R, Liu J, and Liang Y. 2016. Conodont faunal dynamics across the Middle and Upper Ordovician boundary in the Yichang area, western Hubei Province, South China. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 53(8): 856-864. Doi: 10.1139/cjes-2015-0217

15.Zhan R, Jin J, Liu J, Corcoran P, Luan X, and Wei X. 2016. Meganodular limestone of the Pagoda Formation: A time-specific carbonate facies in the Upper Ordovician of South China: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 448: 349-362. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.07.039.

16.Dong, X-p, Vargas, K., Cunningham, J. A., Zhang, H., Liu, T., Chen, F., Liu, J., Bengtson, S., and Donoghue, P. C.J.*, 2016. Developmental biology of the Early Cambrian cnidarian Olivooides. Palaeontology, 59(3): 387-407.

17.李家腾，刘建波，孙永超，闫振，吴荣昌，詹仁斌. 2016. 华南下扬子区下奥陶统仑山组：岩石学、地层学和古地理学. 古地理学报, 18(3): 411-423.

2015

18.景宇轩，刘建波*，闫振，孙永超，许振清. 2015. 利用风暴沉积类型恢复海平面变化：以北京西山下苇甸剖面中晚寒武世风暴沉积为例. 古地理学报, 17(5): 653-668.

14.Adachi N, Kotani A, Nakai T, Ezaki Y, Liu J.2015. Cambrian Series 3 lithistid sponge–microbial reefs in Shandong Province, North China: Reef development after the disappearance of archaeocyaths. Lethaia, 48(3): 405-416.

19.栾晓聪，刘建波，詹仁斌，吴荣昌. 2015. 安徽南部下、中奥陶统紫台组碳酸盐岩微相与海平面变化. 古地理学报, 17(2) :249-264.

2014

20.Adachi N, Ezaki Y, Liu J. 2014. The late early Cambrian microbial reefs immediately after the demise of archaeocyathan reefs, Hunan Province, South China: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 407, 45-55.

21.Adachi N, Nakai T, Ezaki Y, Liu J. 2014. Late Early Cambrian archaeocyath reefs in Hubei Province, South China: modes of construction during their period of demise: Facies, 60(2): 703-717.

22.丁娜，刘建波*，詹仁斌. 2014. 奥陶纪棘皮动物骨骼地球化学特征指示古海水Mg/Ca比的可靠性分析. 科学通报, 59, (10): 924-935.

23.Zhan, R., Huang, B., Wang, G., Jin, J., Liang, Y., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Li, R., Liu, J., and Wu, R., 2014, Discovery of the late Middle Ordovician Saucrorthis fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Sibumasu palaeoplate, western Yunnan, SW China: GFF, v. 136, no. 1, p. 320-326.

20.Zhan R, Harper D A T, Jin J, Liang Y, Liu J, Stemmerik L, and Stouge S. 2014. Middle Ordovician Aporthophyla brachiopod fauna from the roof of the World, southern Tibet: Palaeontology, 57(1): 141-170. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12058.

21.Jing H, Lai X, Sun Y, Wignall P B, Liu J, Yan C. 2014. Permian-Triassic conodonts from Dajiang (Guizhou, South China) and their implication for the age of microbialite deposition in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Journal of Earth Science, 25(3): 413-430. (SCI)

2013

22.刘建波，杨守仁，薛进庄，马学平，孙作玉. 2013. 古生物与沉积环境. 见：冯增昭等（主编），中国沉积学（第二版）. 北京：石油工业出版社，1227-1305.

23.Liu Jianbo, Yang Shouren, Xue Jinzhuang, Ma Xueping, Sun Zuoyu, 2013. Chapter 20 Palaeontology and sedimentary environments. In: Chinese Sedimentology (2nd Version). Petroleum Industry Publishing House, Beijing, p. 1227-1305.

24. Adachi, N., Liu, J., and Ezaki, Y., 2013, Early Ordovician reefs in South China (Chenjiahe section, Hubei Province): deciphering the early evolution of skeletal-dominated reefs: Facies, 59(2): 411-466.

25. 廖翰卿, 刘建波*, 吴荣昌, 孙永超, 詹仁斌. 2013. 华南上扬子区下奥陶统红花园组顶界的穿时性. 古生物学报, 52(1): 15-31.

26. 袁鑫鹏，刘建波*. 2013. 湖北兴山古洞口剖面中—上寒武统白云岩特征及其古环境意义. 古地理学报, 15(3): 363~382.

27. 詹仁斌，靳吉锁，刘建波. 2013. 奥陶纪生物大辐射研究：回顾与展望. 科学通报, 58(33): 3357-3371. DOI: 10.1360/972013-19.

28. Liu J, Sun Y, Zhan R., and Jing Y. 2013. Decrease in carbonate accumulation rate in Early Ordovician in south China: Insights into paleoceanographic changes. In A. Lindskog and K. Mehlqvist (eds.): Proceedings of the 3rd IGCP 591 Annual Meeting — Lund, Sweden, 9—19 June 2013, 194-195. Lund University.

29. 王光旭，詹仁斌，邓占球，刘建波. 2013. 川东华蓥山志留纪兰多维列世中期珊瑚群集及其意义. 中国科学 地球科学, 2013, 43(9): 1456-1463.

30. Wang G, Zhan R, Deng Z, Liu J. 2013. Paleoecological associations of middle Llandovery (Silurian) corals from Huaying Mountain, eastern Sichuan Province. Science China Earth Sciences, 56(4): 640-646.

31. Dong, X.-P., Cunningham, J. A., Bengtson, S., Thomas, C.-W., Liu, J., Stampanoni, M., and Donoghue, P. C. J., 2013, Embryos, polyps and medusae of the Early Cambrian scyphozoan Olivooides: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v. 280, no. 1757, p. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.0071

2012

32. Fang L, Liu J*, and Zhan R. 2012. Temporal distribution of piperocks in Cambrian and Ordovician: A coevolutionary process with changes of paleoenvironment. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, 55(1): 26-38.

 房亮, 刘建波*, 詹仁斌. 2012. 寒武纪—奥陶纪管状岩的盛衰及其与环境演化的协同. 中国科学：地球科学，42(1): 117-129.

33. 王海峰, 刘建波*, 江崎洋一. 2012. 贵州罗甸大文二叠-三叠系界线剖面海平面变化及其全球对比. BEAT365唯一官网学报(自然科学版), 48(4): 589-602.

34. 袁鑫鹏，刘建波*. 2012. 回流渗透模式白云岩的研究历史与进展. 古地理学报, 14(2): 219-228.

35. 吴荣昌，詹仁斌，刘建波，王光旭，2012. 浅论扬子台地边缘地区奥陶系大坪阶底界的识别. 微体古生物学报，29(4): 352-357.

36. Adachi, N., Liu, J., Ezaki, Y., 2012. Early Ordovician stromatoporoid Pulchrilamina spinosa from South China: Geobiological significance and implications for the early development of skeletal-dominated reefs. Paleontological Research, 16(1): 59-69.

37. Adachi, N., Ezaki, Y., Liu, J., 2012. The oldest bryozoan reefs: a unique Early Ordovician skeletal framework construction. Lethaia, 45(1): 14-23.

38. Donovan S.K., Harper D.A.T., Zhan R, Stemmerik L., Liu J., Stouge S. 2012. A primitive cladid crinoid from the Jiacun Group, Tibet (Darriwilian, Middle Ordovician). Geological Journal, 47(6), 653-660.

39. Ezaki Y., Liu J.B., Adachi N. 2012. Lower Triassic stromatolites in Luodian County, Guizhou Province, South China: evidence for the protracted devastation of the marine environments. Geobiology, 10(1): 48-59.

40. Fang L, Liu J*, and Zhan R. 2012. Temporal distribution of piperocks in Cambrian and Ordovician: A coevolutionary process with changes of paleoenvironment. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, 55(1): 26-38.

41. Ezaki Y., Liu J.B., Adachi N. 2012. Lower Triassic stromatolites in Luodian County, Guizhou Province, South China: evidence for the protracted devastation of the marine environments. Geobiology, 10(1): 48-59.

2011

42. Liu J, Zhan R, Dai X, Liao H, Ezaki Y, and Adachi N. 2011. Demise of Early Ordovician oolites in South China: Evidence for paleoceanographic changes before the GOBE. In: Gutiérrez-Marco, JC, Rábano I, and García-Bellido, D. (eds.), Ordovician of the World. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, p. 309-317.

43. Zhan R, Liu J*, Liang Y, and Li G. 2011. α- and β-diversity change of Late Ordovician Hirnantia fauna of Changning, Sichuan, SW China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 84(2): 330–339.

44. 戎嘉余, 陈旭, 王怿, 詹仁斌, 刘建波, 黄冰, 唐鹏, 吴荣昌, 王光旭. 2011. 奥陶-志留纪之交黔中古陆的北扩: 证据与启示. 中国科学: 地球科学, 41(10): 1407-1415.

45. 侯鸿飞, 周怀玲, 刘建波. 2011. 湖南台地泥盆纪末绝灭事件后的微生物沉积. 地质学报, 85(1): 145-456.

46. Harper DAT, Zhan R, Stemmerik L, Liu J, Donovan SK, and Stouge S. 2011. Ordovician on the roof of the World: Macro- and microfaunas from tropical carbonates in Tibet. In: Gutiérrez-Marco JC, Rábano I, and García-Bellido D. (eds.), Ordovician of the World. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, p. 215-220.

47. Adachi N, Ezaki Y, and Liu J. 2011. Early Ordovician shift in reef construction from microbial to metazoan reefs. Palaios, 26(2): 106-114.

48. Adachi N, Ezaki Y, Liu J, and Cao J. 2011. Lower Ordovician stromatolites from the Anhui Province of South China: construction and geobiological significance. In: Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology. Reitner, J., Quéric, N.-V., Arp, G. eds., Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (Springer). v. 131, p. 443-452.

Before 2011

49. Liu J, Ezaki Y, Adachi N, and Zhan R. 2010. Evidence for decoupling of relative abundance and biodiversity of marine organisms in initial stage of GOBE: A preliminary study on Lower Ordovician shellbeds of South China. Journal of Earth Science, 21(Special Issue): 44–48.

50. Liu J, and Zhan R, 2009. Temporal distribution of diagnostic biofabrics in the Lower and Middle Ordovician in North China: Clues to the geobiology of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Acta Geologica Sinica, 83(3): 801-811.

51. Liu J. 2009. Marine sedimentary response to the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Examples from North China and South China. Paleontological Research, 13(1): 9-21.

52. 刘建波, 江崎洋一, 杨守仁, 王海峰, 足立奈津子. 2007. 贵州罗甸二叠纪末生物大灭绝事件后沉积的微生物岩的时代和沉积学特征. 古地理学报, 9(5): 473-486.

53. 刘建波，2006．华南早—中奥陶世生物大辐射期间的海平面变化．见：戎嘉余主编，生物的起源、辐射与生物多样性演变——华夏化石记录的启示．北京：科学出版社，335~360，875-877．

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2013年 北京市高等教育教学成果奖二等奖（第二完成人）

2012年 BEAT365唯一官网教学成果奖一等奖（第二完成人）

2008年 教育部自然科学奖一等奖（第二完成人）

2004年 北京市教育教学成果（高等教育）二等奖（第二完成人）

2001年 BEAT365唯一官网桐山奖教金优秀奖

中国古生物学会副秘书长（2006-至今）

中国古生物学会微体古生物学分会理事（2008-至今）

中国矿物岩石地球化学学会岩相古地理专业委员会委员（2006-至今）

《古地理学报》副主编（2010-至今）

《Journal of Palaeogeography》编委）（2013-至今）

SEPM（美国沉积地质学会）会员（2000-至今）

IAS（国际沉积学家协会）会员（2012年-至今）