Keynote speaker

Kai Liu received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands in 2015. Then he pursued his postdoctoral studies at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands and Harvard University in the USA, respectively. In 2017, he was appointed as a principal investigator at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. In 2020, he moved to the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University in Beijing and in 2023 was promoted to a tenured full professor, during which he headed a laboratory performing research on the interface of rare earth biotechnology, biosynthetic chemistry, and information technology. In the past years, he has published more than 50 papers in high-ranked PNAS, JACS, Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., and 40 patents are issued. He has been given several talent awards including National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Rubicon Award, the Young Innovator Award of Nano Research, the Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award of the Chinese Chemical Society, China Rare Earth Science & Technology Award. Besides, he is serving as peer-review editor or editorial board for several journals, including CAE flag journal Engineering and ACS Applied Bio Materials.

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