Dr. Liu received her M.E. degrees from Neimongol University, China in 1999, and a Ph.D. degree from the Zhejiang University in department of chemistry in 2004. She did her postdoctoral work at the Zhejiang University and North Carolina State University. She joined the faculty at Zhejiang University in 2006. She has won Outstanding Dissertation of Zhejiang University in 2004, Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow of Zhejiang University in 2006, "Future Stars" fellowship of Zhejiang University and Ministry of Education of China in 2007-2009.