Rate My Professor Porun Liu

Professor Porun Liu serves as Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Environment and Science at Griffith University, affiliated with ESC - Materials and Analytical Chemistry and the Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy, where he was Deputy Director from 2021 to 2024. He holds a PhD in Chemical Science from Griffith University (2007-2011), a Master of Science in Chemistry from Jinan University, and a Bachelor of Science. Liu's research centers on developing nanoscale inorganic metal compounds, carbon materials, and their composites as functional nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage, with applications in electrocatalysis including hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, and CO2 reduction to value-added chemicals and fuels.

Liu's career at Griffith University has advanced from postdoctoral research fellow to professor, marked by major Australian Research Council grants: ARC Future Fellowship (2024, $1,195,492) for porous hybrid electrodes enabling efficient CO2 electroreduction; ARC Discovery Project (2023, $350,627) for robust, efficient porous hybrid hydrogen electrodes in alkaline water electrolysis; and ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA). His contributions have garnered over 14,000 citations and an h-index of 42 on Google Scholar. Notable publications include 'Interpolation Between W Dopant and Co Vacancy in CoOOH Nanosheets for Efficient Oxygen Evolution' (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021), 'Operando Converting BiOCl into Bi2O2(CO3)xCly for Efficient Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction into Liquid Solar Fuel' (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022), 'hcp-phased Ni nanoparticles with generic catalytic activity' (Nano Research, 2021), and 'Three-dimensional porous Ti supported Ni/Sb Co-doped SnO2 anode' (Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2024). Liu supervises PhD candidates on topics like carbon nanodots composites for energy applications and actively contributes to teaching and professional activities in materials chemistry.