Professor Liu is the Chair of Microbial Bioenergetics and Bioengineering in the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool. He is a Royal Society University Research Fellow (10/2013-02/2022) and a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society.
He received his PhD in Microbiology from Shandong University, China (2008) and carried out a joint PhD project at Leiden University, Netherlands (2005-2008). He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Institute Curie, Paris (2008-2010), and a Marie Curie research fellow at Queen Mary University of London (2010-2012).
Research
By applying and developing a broad range of techniques, including molecular genetics, biochemistry, synthetic biology and microscopic approaches, his research group explores the molecular basis driving the biosynthesis, structures and regulation of macromolecular complexes and metabolic machinery. The study aims to inform the design and engineering of proteins, enzymes, new bioinspired nanomaterials, bionanoreactors, and cages to make our life better and green in a sustainable manner.