Zheng Liu

Dr. Zheng Liu is now a professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He works on the synthesis of high-quality and large-size novel 2D monolayers, especially transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and their applications in catalysis and electronics. He has published more than 300 papers, including more than 40 papers in Nature and Science serial journals, with total citations of more than  40,000 and H-index of more than 100. 

He was the finalist of the World Technology Award in Energy category in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Singapore NRF Fellowship and the elite Nanyang Assistant Professorship. He was awarded ICON-2DMAT Young Scientist Award and the prestigious Singapore Young Scientist Award in 2018. He was named Materials Research Society of Singapore Chair Professorship in 2019 and awarded Asia's Rising Scientists and the Nanyang Research Award (Young Investigator) in the same year. He was the highly cited researcher from 2018 - 2022.