1995年本科毕业于西安地质学院水文地质与工程地质专业，2000年硕士毕业于国家海洋局第一海洋研究所环境科学专业，2005年博士毕业于中国海洋大学海洋地质学专业。2003年9月至2004年6月丹麦奥胡斯大学地球科学系访问学者（DANIDA奖学金），
2009年1月至7月意大利海洋学与实验地球物理学研究院访问学者（UNESCO-ICTP奖学金）。海洋地质与地球物理研究室从事海洋沉积和古海洋学研究，2005年任副研究员，2010年任研究员。
发表论文：
1. 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, 126(2021) e2020JC016960.
2. 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 170(2021) 112691.
3. Sha Longbin, Li Dongling, Liu Yanguang*, Wu Bin, Wu Yanni, Knudsen Karen Luise, Li Zhongqiao, Xu Hao. Biogenic silica concentration as a marine primary productivity proxy in the Holsteinsborg Dyb, West Greenland, during the last millennium. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(9): 78–85
4. Hu, L., Liu, Y., Xiao, X., Gong, X., Zou, J., Bai, Y., Gorbarenko, S., Fahl, K., Stein, R., Shi, X. Sedimentary records of bulk organic matter and lipid biomarkers in the Bering Sea: A centennial perspective of sea-ice variability and phytoplankton community. Marine Geology 429(2020) 106308.
5. Li, L., Liu, Y., Wang, X., Hu, L., Yang, G., Wang, H., Bosin, A., Astakhov, A., Shi, X. Early diagenesis and accumulation of redox-sensitive elements in East Siberian Arctic Shelves. Marine Geology 429(2020) 106309.
6. Linsen Dong, Leonid Polyak, Yanguang Liu, Xuefa Shi*, Jun Zhang, Yuanhui Huang. Isotopic fingerprints of ice-rafted debris offer new constraints on Middle to Late Quaternary Arctic circulation and glacial history. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020, 21(8), e2020GC009019.
7. 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, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018073
8. Peng Ren, Yanguang Liu, Xuefa Shi, Shuwen Sun, Di Fan, Xuchen Wang. Sources and sink of black carbon in Arctic Ocean sediments. Science of the Total Environment 689(2019) 912-920.
9. Linsen Dong, Yanguang Liu, Xuefa Shi, Leonid Polyak, Yuanhui Huang, Xisheng Fang, Jianxing Liu, Jianjun Zou, Kunshan Wang, Fuqiang Sun, Xuchen Wang, Sedimentary record from the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean: implications for late to middle Pleistocene glacial history, Climate of the Past 13(2017) 511-531.
10. Jinxia Chen, Yanguang Liu*, Xuefa Shi, Bong-Chool Suk, Jianjun Zou, Zhengquan Yao, Climate and environmental changes for the past 44 ka clarified by pollen and algae composition in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea (Japan Sea), Quaternary International 441(2017) 162-173
11. Yanguang Liu*, Jiaojie Chen, Jinxia Chen, Lei Xing, Jianjun Zou, Zhengquan Yao. Variations of alkenone temperature in the Sea of Japan during the last 170 ka and its paleoceanographic implications. Chinese science bulletin, 2014, 59(33): 4498–4509.
12. Zhengquan Yao, Yanguang Liu*, Xuefa Shi, Bong-chool Suk, Paleoenviron -mental changes in the East/Japan Sea during the last 48 ka: indications from high-resolution X-ray fluorescence core scanning, Journal of Quaternary Science, 2012, 27(9): 932–940
13. Michele Rebesco, Yanguang Liu, Angelo Camerlenghi, Monica Winsborrow, Jan Sverre Laberg, Andrea Caburlotto, Paolo Diviacco, Daniela Accettella, Chiara Sauli, Nigel Wardell, Isabella Tomini, Deglaciation of the western margin of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet - A swath bathymetric and sub-bottom seismic study from the Kveithola Trough. Marine Geology, 279(2011) 141-147
14. Yanguang Liu, Longbin Sha, Shi Xuefa, Bong-Chool Suk, Chaoxin Li, Kunshan Wang, Xiaoyan Li, Depositional environment in the southern Ulleung Basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan), during the last 48,000 years, Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2010, 29(5): 52-64.
15. 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.
16. 吴东, 刘焱光*, Jon Eiriksson. 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.
17. 宋腾飞, 王宏雷, 陈漪馨, 李朝新, 朱爱美, 白亚之, 石学法, Gorbarenko S, Bosin A, 刘焱光*. 白令海北部陆坡23 ka以来古生产力变化及其对海冰扩张的响应, 海洋学报, 2018, 40(5): 90~106
18. Zhong, Y., Liu, Y., Yang, X., Zhang, J., Liu, J., Bosin, A., Gorbarenko, S.A., Shi, X., Chen, T., Chou, Y.M., Liu, W., Wang, H., Gai, C., Liu, J., Derkachev, A.N., Qiang, X., & Liu, Q. Do non-dipole geomagnetic field behaviors persistently exist in the subarctic Pacific Ocean over the past 140ka? Science Bulletin 65(2020) 1505–1507.
19. Chen Jinxia, Shi Xuefa, Liu Yanguang, Qiao Shuqing, Yang Shixiong, Yan Shijuan, Lv Huahua, Li Jianyong, Li Xiaoyan, Li Chaoxin. Holocene vegetation dynamics in response to climate change and hydrological processes in the Bohai region. Climate of the Past 16(2020) 2509–2531.
20. Sergey A. Gorbarenko, Xuefa Shi, Yanguang Liu, Jianjun Zou, Olga Yu. Psheneva, Aleksandr A. Bosin, Ivan S. Kirichenko, Antonina V. Artemova, Elena A. Yanchenko, Yuriy P. Vasilenko. Evidence of Southern Ocean influence into the far Northwest Pacific (Northern Emperor Rise) since the Bølling–Allerød warming. Global and Planetary Change 195(2020) 103315.
学术专著：
(1) 刘焱光, 王汝建, 汪卫国, 于晓果 (国家海洋局极地专项办公室编), 北极海洋地质考察图集, 海洋出版社, 90千字, 2017
(2) 刘焱光, 王汝建, 汪卫国, 于晓果 (国家海洋局极地专项办公室编), 北极海域海洋地质考察, 海洋出版社, 500千字, 2016
1. “南北极环境综合考察与评估”专项专题，CHINARE -03-02，北极海域海洋地质考察，2012/01-2017/12，主持。
2. 极地国际合作项目，IC201309，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，2013/01-2014/12，主持。
3. 国家自然科学基金面上基金项目，41876070，北冰洋沉积物中磁性矿物及其剩磁记录机制研究，2019/01-2022/12，主持。
4. 国家自然科学基金面上基金项目，41076038，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，2010/01-2013/12，主持。
5. 国家自然科学基金青年基金项目，40606016，末次冰期以来日本海表层海水温度与东海的对比研究，2007/01-2009/12，主持。
(1) 2015年海洋工程科学技术奖一等奖, 我国大河三角洲的脆弱性调查及灾害评估技术研究, 获奖时间：2016.2，排名：3/15。
(2) 2015年海洋科学技术奖一等奖, 我国近海底质调查与研究, 获奖时间：2016.4, 排名：4/15。
(3) 中国极地考察先进个人, 获奖时间：2017.1.
国际北极科学委员会海洋工作组国家代表(2020.2-2024.2)
