Scholar

Weishu liu

Google Scholar ID: A9WzDGQAAAAJ

Professor, Fellow of RSC, Southern University of Science and Technology, ShenZhen

Material ScienceNano MaterialsEnergy harvestThermoelectricsIonic thermoelectric

Citations & Impact

All-time

Citations

12,323

H-index

i10-index

133

Publications

Co-authors

Resume

Academic Achievements

Published over 160 papers in journals including Science, PNAS, Nat. Commun., Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Mater.; total citations >13,000; H-index 54
Filed 39 patents; granted 17 Chinese patents, 2 Japanese PCT patents, and 1 US patent
Contributed to three English-language academic books
2024: Academic Contribution Award, Chinese Materials Research Society
2019: Inaugural Tencent “Xplorer Prize”
2024: National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
2023: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2021: Recognized as National-Level Leading Talent in Shenzhen
2017: Selected into Guangdong’s “Pearl River Talent Program”, Shenzhen’s “Peacock Plan” (Class B), and Nanshan District “Leading Talent” (Class B)
2012: Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Award
2009: President’s Medal, University of Science and Technology Beijing
2008: “Top 10 Academic Stars”, University of Science and Technology Beijing
2003: Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Chongqing Municipality
Multiple awards for outstanding peer review (e.g., Electrochimica Acta, Nano Energy, Applied Surface Science)

Research Experience

2022.5–present: Professor (Researcher), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUSTech
2016.9–2022.5: Associate Professor (Researcher), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUSTech
2015.2–2016.6: Principal Materials Scientist, Sheetak Inc., USA
2012.1–2015.1: Research Associate, Department of Physics & Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, USA
2009.12–2012.12: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Boston College, USA
2009.2–2009.11: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, USA

Background

Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
Research interests: thermoelectric correlated materials and devices, micro-temperature-difference thermoelectric conversion and thermal applications, body-heat-powered wearable electronics, skin-like thermofunctional biomimetics
Key research areas: room-temperature thermoelectric materials, ionic thermoelectric materials, magnetothermoelectric materials, micro-distributed thermoelectric power sources, electronic skin

Miscellany

Member of multiple academic societies: AAAS, TMS, MRS, APS, International Thermoelectric Society, etc.
Editorial Board Member, “Materials Science” Section, China Sciencepaper (2019–2022)
Advisory Board Member, IOP journal Nanotechnology (since 2018)
Council Member, Shenzhen Society of Micro-Nano Technology (2018–2023)
Council Member, Thermoelectric Materials and Applications Division, Chinese Materials Research Society (2018–2022)
Vice Chair, Materials Science Division, Chinese Society for Stereology
Member, CSTM Standards Committee on Materials Genome Engineering