Prof Zhipan Liu

Zhipan Liu got Ph.D in 2003 from Queens Univ Belfast under supervision of Prof. Peijun Hu, and then did PostDoc with Professor David King in University of Cambridge. He returned to China in 2005 and is now a full professor in Department of Chemistry, Fudan University. He has published more than 160 research papers, including 27 in JACS. He was appointed as Senior Editor for J. Phys. Chem. A/B/C since 2017. Zhipan Liu's research focuses on the reactivity prediction of chemical systems for energy storage and conversion. Novel theoretical methods, such as the stochastic surface walking global optimization (SSW) method and more recently global neural network method, were developed in the group to search for novel structures of material and to identify low energy pathways.