Dr. Mingzhao Liu received his bachelor degree from Peking University in 2002 and his doctoral degree from The University of Chicago in 2007, both in chemistry. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, he joined the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as a Staff Scientist in 2012 and was promoted to Scientist with Continuing Appointment in 2019. Since 2014 Dr. Liu has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering of Stony Brook University.