Prof Bin Liu

Professor, Provost's Chair & Department Head
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

National University of Singapore

Prof Liu received BS degree from Nanjing University and PhD degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) before her postdoctoral training at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She joined the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of NUS in late 2005. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and was named as Chair Professor in 2014. Her current research focuses on organic nanomaterials for biomedical and energy applications. Prof Liu has received many highly prestigious awards, including Singapore President's Young Scientist Award 2008, L'Oréal Women in Science National Fellowship 2011, Asia Rising Star 2013, BASF Materials Award 2014, Materials in Society Lectureship 2015, Singapore President's Technology Award 2016, and Asian Scientist Top 100 List in 2017. She was also named as The World's Most Influential Minds and the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters during 2014-2017. Prof Liu is the Fellow of Singapore Academy of Engineering, Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials, the Royal Society of Chemistry and serves as the Associate Editor for Polymer Chemistry.