Prof. Junzhi Liu

08.2025 - : Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong

08.2019-07.2025: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong

07.2017-07.2019: Research Group Leader, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

07.2015-06.2017: Postdoc, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

07.2011-01.2016: Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany

Awards & Recognition:

Materials Chemistry Frontiers "Emerging Investigator" (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2025)

Chinese Journal of Chemistry "Emerging Investigator" (Wiley-VCH, 2024)

Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2023)

Outstanding Young Researcher Award (HKU, 2023)

Small "Rising Star" (Wiley-VCH, 2022)

ChemComm Emerging Investigator (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022)

NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Award (Hong Kong and Macau, 2021)

RGC Early Career Award (2020)

IUPAC International Award for Young Chemists - Honorable Mention Award (2017)

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students (2015)

Best Poster Award, EUROMAT2013, Spain (2013)

EU “Marie Curie” Fellowship (2011-2014)

Royal DSM N.V. (DSM) scholarship (2009).

Professional Affiliations and Service Activities:

Early Career Advisory Board of Materials Chemistry Frontiers (2025-)

Editorial Board for Chinese Journal of Chemistry (2024-)

Advisory Board for Organic Materials (2023-)

Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) of Chemistry – An Asian Journal (2020-).

Reviewer for Nature Chem., Nature Comm., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Sci., Small, Org. Lett., Chem. Eur. J., J. Org. Chem., etc.

Scientific Interests:

1) Rational synthesis of nanocarbons with non-alternant topologies

2) Atomically precise synthesis of 3D and ordered molecular nanocarbons, and supramolecular chemistry.

3) Bottom-up organic synthesis of heteroatom-doped nanocarbons

4) Organic electronic nanodevices: Organic memory and memristors; multi-functional integration of organic field-effect transistors, OLEDs, etc