Yanping Liu is a Full Professor and PhD Supervisor at Central South University, located in Hunan, China. He has received multiple awards and honors, including the Distinguished Professor designation of the "Furong Scholar Award Program," the Outstanding Youth Fund of Hunan Province, and the title of Chief Scientist in key research and development fields of Hunan Province. He is also recognized as an Expert of the Hundred Talents Program of Hunan Province, an Excellent Talent of Science and Technology Innovation Talents of Hunan Province, and a Third-Level Candidate of the 121 Innovation Talent Project of Hunan Province.
Dr. Liu obtained his Bachelor's degree from Hengyang Normal University and a Doctor of Physics and Philosophy from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he was supervised by Professor LEW Wen Siang. In addition, he was a joint doctoral student at RIKEN under the guidance of Professor Yoshichika OTANI and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Professors Yao Jie and Zhang Xiang. Currently, Dr. Liu leads the Youth Innovation Team for New Information Devices at Central South University and is a member of the Hunan Province Key Laboratory of Ultra-microstructure and Ultrafast Process at the School of Physics and Electronics. He is also a project researcher at the Shenzhen Research Institute of Central South University.
Currently, Dr. Liu is the leader of the Youth Innovation Team for New Information Devices at Central South University and a member of the Hunan Province Key Laboratory of Ultra-microstructure and Ultrafast Process at the School of Physics and Electronics of Central South University. He also works as a project researcher at the Shenzhen Research Institute of Central South University.
Dr. Liu is a respected reviewer for several technical journals, including Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, and Physical Review Letters. His primary research focuses on low-dimensional quantum materials and devices, such as 2D materials, Van der Waals heterostructures, Spintronics, Valleytronics, and Twistronics. He has published over 50 papers in top-tier journals such as Chem Soc Rev, Light: Science & Applications, Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Science, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, and Small. Dr. Liu also serves as a Young Star Editor of the international high-level academic journal Nano Research, and Executive Editor of the Journal of Electronics Science and Technology.