Liu Jiayi is a professor and supervisor of master’s and doctoral students. She serves as chief expert for a major research project in philosophy and social sciences funded by the Ministry of Education, chief expert for a major special project of the National Social Science Fund of China, and Project Lead for the National Soft Science Research Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. She currently serves as Director of the Institute for Marine Strategic Studies at Tianjin University, discipline leader in marine economy and management at Tianjin University, and head of the Tianjin Higher Education Think Tank Development Base. She also holds concurrent appointments as Distinguished Professor at Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Deputy Director of the Marine Think Tank Committee of the Pacific Society of China, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics under the Ministry of Natural Resources, Research Fellow at the China Institute for Marine Affairs, and Research Fellow at the China–ASEAN Smart Ocean Center. In addition, she serves as a reviewer for journals including the Journal of Marine Science and Technology and China and Asia: Journal in Historical Studies.