Liping Liu earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2025, where he was recognized with the Outstanding Graduate Research Award. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2018, graduating as an Outstanding Graduate and receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award.
Liping brings valuable research experience from his internship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he worked with Dr. Jin Qian, as well as numerous distinctions, including the Richard J. Kokes Travel Award (NAM29, 2025), CRE Travel Award (AIChE Annual Conference, 2024), CATL ChemCatBio Travel Award (ACS Fall Meeting, 2023), and Co-first Student Poster Award (SECS 2022 Annual Symposium).
We are thrilled to welcome Liping and look forward to the expertise and innovative perspective he will contribute to the Gagliardi Group!