Researcher

Xiaogang Liu earned his PhD degree in inorganic chemistry from Northwestern University, US, in 2004. Following this, he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, before joining the National University of Singapore (NUS)’s Department of Chemistry in 2006. He received a full professorship in 2017 and currently holds a joint appointment with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Surgery at the NUS School of Medicine.

Liu’s research interests include the study of energy transfer in lanthanide-doped nanomaterials; the application of optical nanomaterials for neuromodulation and light-field imaging; the development of advanced X-ray imaging scintillators; and the prototyping of electronic tools for assistive technologies. Liu serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals, including Nanoscale, BMEMat, Journal of Luminescence, Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Chemistry: An Asian Journal, Advanced Optical Materials, InfoMat, The Innovation, Nanoscale Horizons, Small Methods, Next Technology and Nano Letters.