Horst Complex

dr. H. Su (Han)

Assistant Professor
ET-CEM-MWM
Horst Complex W204
h.su@utwente.nl
+31534899362
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I am a water researcher driven by the responsibility of our generation for sustainability. My work focuses on how water interacts with other interconnected systems, such as agri-food system, international trade, infrastructure, and human consumption, and how these interactions shape the resilience and sustainability of freshwater resources.

I take a holistic, water cycle-based perspective, examining processes from atmosphere to surface water and groundwater under a changing climate. I apply the most advanced models from various disciplines to address these issues.

I enjoy working with people from different countries with various backgrounds. I highly value open, honest discussions on complex global challenges. I look forward to bringing research into action. I am also committed to supporting others.

My research has been featured in major global assessments, including FAO The State of Food and Agriculture 2025 report and the World Bank Continental Drying report. I contributed to establishing the global freshwater target for the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi).

I am a recipient of the OECD Co-operative Research Program (CRP) Fellowship on Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems and the IIASA-YSSP (Young Scientists Summer Program) Fellowship.

I actively serve the scientific community as a reviewer for leading journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS); Earth’s Future; Scientific Data; Earth System Science Data (ESSD); Resources, Conservation and Recycling; Environmental Research Letters; Scientific Reports; Journal of Cleaner Production; Land Use Policy; Environmental Research; Sustainable Horizons, and others.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Water Use
    • China
    • Crop Production

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

    • Water Footprint
    • Virtual Water
    • Water Flow
    • Water Scarcity
    • Water Consumption

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Publications

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2026

Spatiotemporal Trade‐Offs and Synergies Among Environmental Footprints of Grain Crop Production in China (2026)Global change biology, 32(2). Article e70739. Sun, F., Liu, W., Su, H., Mekonnen, M. M., Xu, Z., Wang, W., Qiang, M., Ji, X., Wu, P. & Zhuo, L.https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70739Assessing virtual water flows from small-scale and large-scale agriculture in global trade (2026)Global Sustainability, 9. Article e29. Su, H., Bruckner, M., Taherzadeh, O., Sun, Z., Hogeboom, R. J., Cai, H. & Krol, M. S.https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2026.10066

2025

Regionalizing the ACEA Model with Remote Sensing for Water Footprints in the Upper Syr Darya Basin (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] AGU Annual Meeting 2025. Baviskar, G., Foster, T., Hogeboom, R. J., Krol, M. & Su, H.Regionalising the ACEA Model in the Upper Syr Darya Basin Using Remote Sensing Data (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] University of Twente ET day. Baviskar, G., Foster, T., Hogeboom, R., Krol, M. S. & Su, H.Nutrient production, water consumption, and stresses of large-scale versus small-scale agriculture: A global comparative analysis based on a gridded crop model (2025)Global Food Security, 45, 100844. Article 100844. Su, H., Foster, T., Hogeboom, R. J., Luna-Gonzalez, D. V., Mialyk, O., Willaarts, B., Wang, Y. & Krol, M. S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100844Complementary strengths of water footprint and life cycle assessments in analyzing global freshwater appropriation and its local impacts – Recommendations from an Interdisciplinary discussion series (2025)Ecological indicators, 174. Article 113458. Berger, M., Gerbens-Leenes, W., Karandish, F., Aldaya, M. M., Boulay, A. M., Hogeboom, R. J., Link, A., Manzardo, A., Mialyk, O., Motoshita, M., Nuñez, M., Pfister, S., Rosenbaum, R. K., Scherer, L., Su, H. & Wöhler, L.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113458Data underlying the publication: Estimating the contribution of small-scale agriculture to the crop production involved in international trade and virtual water flows (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Su, H., Bruckner , M., Taherzadeh, O., Sun, Z., Hogeboom, R. J. & Krol, M. S.https://doi.org/10.4121/4d32300f-28cf-45f8-8e9d-77759bf6e9ceRegionalising the ACEA Model in the Upper Syr Darya Basin Using Remote Sensing Data (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] NWO NAC – Dutch Earth and Environmental Sciences Conference 2025. Baviskar, G., Foster, T., Hogeboom, R., Krol, M. S. & Su, H.Does international trade help us deal with water scarcity problems? (2025)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] EGU General Assembly 2025. Su, H., Mialyk, O., J. Hogeboom, R. & Berger, M.https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-5651

2024

The role of small-scale agriculture in water consumption, water scarcity, and virtual water flows (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Su, H.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036560559Water pollution scenarios and response options for China (2024)Science of the total environment, 914. Article 169807. Feng, H., Schyns, J. F., Krol, M. S., Yang, M., Su, H., Liu, Y., Lv, Y., Zhang, X., Yang, K. & Che, Y.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169807Water footprints and crop water use of 175 individual crops for 1990–2019 simulated with a global crop model (2024)Scientific Data, 11. Article 206. Mialyk, O., Schyns, J. F., Booij, M. J., Su, H., Hogeboom, R. J. & Berger, M.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03051-3Dataset of Science Based Target Network's Freshwater Quantity Target (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Hogeboom, R. J., Su, H., Prunes, E., Dilks, D. & Townsend, A.https://doi.org/10.4121/089afa18-bbd5-493e-8a6c-39e1ca7b2a59Global gridded crop model ACEA (2024)[Dataset Types › Software]. Zenodo. Mialyk, O. & Su, H.https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10510934Global gridded crop model ACEA (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Mialyk, O., Su, H., Hogeboom, R. J., Schyns, J. F. & Booij, M. J.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10510933Data underlying the publication: Small-scale and large-scale agriculture across water-scarce and water-abundant regions (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Su, H., Foster, T., Hogeboom, R. J., Luna-Gonzalez, D. V., Willaarts, B., Mialyk, O., Wang, Y. & Krol , M.https://doi.org/10.4121/de21d6c2-95f7-42e5-a3cf-f5b66b559924

2023

Data underlying the publication: Water footprints and crop water use of 175 individual crops for 1990–2019 simulated with a global crop model (2023)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Mialyk, O., Schyns, J. F., Booij, M. J., Su, H., Hogeboom, R. J. & Berger, M.https://doi.org/10.4121/7b45bcc6-686b-404d-a910-13c87156716a基于数值模拟的负荷削减–水体水质响应的非线性强度指标 (2023)Beijing Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 59(4), 695-703. Su, H., Zou, R., Liang, Z., Ye, R., Wang, Z. & Liu, Y.https://doi.org/10.13209/j.0479-8023.2023.036Smallholder farming and water scarcity: contributions, benefits, and limitations (2023)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] EGU General Assembly 2023. Su, H., Foster, T., Krol, M. S., Hogeboom, R. J., Willaarts, B., Luna-Gonzalez, D. V., Mialyk, O. & Schyns, J. F.https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-1529

2022

Gridded 5 arcmin datasets for simultaneously farm-size-specific and crop-specific harvested areas in 56 countries (2022)Earth system science data, 14(9), 4397-4418. Su, H., Willaarts, B., Luna-gonzalez, D., Krol, M. S. & Hogeboom, R. J.https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4397-2022Exploring the type and strength of nonlinearity in water quality responses to nutrient loading reduction in shallow eutrophic water bodies: Insights from a large number of numerical simulations (2022)Journal of environmental management, 313, 115000. Article 115000. Su, H., Zou, R., Zhang, X., Liang, Z., Ye, R. & Liu, Y.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115000The role of context in identifying linkages between SDG 2 (food) and SDG 6 (water) (2022)Sustainability Science, 17, 1605-1618. Su, H., Krol, M. S. & Hogeboom, R. J.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01158-3A bi-directional strategy to detect land use function change using time-series Landsat imagery on Google Earth Engine: A case study of Huangshui River Basin in China (2022)Science of Remote Sensing, 5. Article 100039. Shen, Z., Wang, Y., Su, H., He, Y. & Li, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2022.100039How soil, water, and crop change along with farm sizes: insights from a new high-resolution farm-size specific and crop-specific map covering 56 countries (2022)[Other contribution › Other contribution]. Su, H., Willaarts, B., Gonzalez, D. L., Krol, M. S. & Hogeboom, R. J.https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-882Gridded 5 arcmin datasets for simultaneously farm-size-specific and crop-specific harvested areas in 56 countries (2022)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Su, H., Willaarts, B., Luna Gonzalez, D., Krol, M. S. & Hogeboom, R.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6976249Gridded 5-arcmin, simultaneously farm-size- and crop-specific harvested area for 56 countries (2022)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Su, H., Willaarts, B., Luna Gonzalez, D., Krol, M. S. & Hogeboom, R.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5747616A hybrid multi-regional input-output model of China: Integrating the physical agricultural biomass and food system into the monetary supply chain (2022)Resources, conservation and recycling, 177. Article 105981. Ye, Q., Bruckner, M., Wang, R., Schyns, J. F., Zhuo, L., Yang, L., Su, H. & Krol, M. S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105981

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Courses academic year 2026/2027

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I am involved in the following projects:

Earth@lternatives (H2020 European Research Council Advanced Grant 2018)

SBTfW (WWF funded project to develop a global water availability map for Science-Based Target for Water)

Several WorldBank funded projects on monitoring global water resources and China's virtual water flow and food security analysis.

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University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W204
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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