Liang-Yin Chu

Liang-Yin Chu is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and a Vice President of Sichuan University, PR China. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1995 from Northeastern University. Prof. Chu was promoted as a full professor of Chemical Engineering at Sichuan University in 1997 and became Director of the Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Filtration and Separation in 2001. He was a research fellow at the University of Tokyo (1999-2001) and a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2006-2007), ESPCI Paris (2007-2008) and the University of Birmingham (2011). He has received many honours and awards, including: Natural Science Awards issued by the Ministry of Education (2003) and the Sichuan Provincial Government (2015 and 2020), Distinguished Young Scholar issued by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2008), Distinguished Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program issued by the Ministry of Education (2009), the Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Award for Innovation issued by the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (2013 and 2022), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2014), National Technological Invention Award (2018), Fellow of the Global Academy of Chinese Chemical Engineers (2021), the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation (2021) and Fellow of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (2022). His teaching and research are focused on microfluidics, mass transfer and separations, membrane science and technology, smart controlled-release systems, and functional materials. He has authored and co-authored more than 500 peer-reviewed journal articles, 81 patents, 7 books and 19 book chapters.