Liana is a Doctor of Science (Engineering) and Associate professor in Geo-Ecology. Her expertise is in eco-education, environmental monitoring and assessment, water resources management, planning, modeling and prediction, assessment of climate change impacts on water resources, etc. She is the Laureate in the nomination for Scientific and practical achievements and socially significant activity in the field of ecology in the CIS member-countries in 2013. She promotes non-formal environmental education for children and youth and is the author of a number of eco-teaching games and activities. "She believes that human being a part of nature should take care of the environment as nature takes care of us bestowed as an right to live."