Affiliation: Guangdong University of Technology

Dr. Yan Liu received her PhD degree from Sun Yat-sen University in 2007. After postdoctoral positions at Hong Kong Baptist University (2007−2009, Hong Kong) with Prof. Zhi-Hong Jiang and Kyoto University (2010−2013, Kyoto) with Prof. Keiji Maruoka, she joined Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou. She was promoted as Associate Professor in 2014 and full professor in 2019 at the School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology. She won the Guangdong Provincial Award for Progress in Science and Technology (2020, China); Her research interests are (1) asymmetric catalysis and radical chemistry: new synthetic methodologies; (2) the development of specific copper chelators as potential anti-Alzheimer’s disease agents. So far, she has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers.