Dr. Liu is also the deputy director of the National-Local-Joint Engineering Laboratory of Bio-inspired Engineering (NLJELBE). Prof. Liu received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and currently is a Tang Ao Qing Laureate Professor at Jilin University. The research in Prof. Liu’s group is mainly focused on the design and synthesis of novel functional materials targeting a broad range of environmental, energy and biomedical applications, such as, electrochemical catalysis, light harvesting, photo-catalysis, pseudo-capacitors, biomaterials, etc. The findings have been published on Nature, PNAS, Chemical Science, Small, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, etc.