Chemical Rapid Communications Vol.2 No.1, June 2014 5 ISSN: 2325-9892 (Print) 2325-9906 (Online) www.researchpub.org/journal/crc/crc.html Biography of Professor Dr. Lijian Liu Chao Zhang, PhD*  racemic biomolecules, synthesis of polyphosphate for biomedical applications, and assymetric synthesis. Dr. Liu’s current research interests are focused on green methodology for polymer synthesis, including carbene polymerization of monomers from non-fossil resources, microwave-assisted synthesis of biodegradable polymers and molecules of commercial interest, and supramolecular polymeric micelles. Dr. Liu has been a pioneer in carbene polymerization and discovered a new methodology in constructing functional polymeric materials. He also was the first to report supramolecular polymeric micelles through the self-assebly of cyclodextrin and hydrophobic polyester. Dr. Liu had devoted tremndous effort in developing the microwave-assisted technology in the production of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and poly(-caprolactone) (PCL), his work has now led to a plant with annual production of 20000 tons of PLA and PCL. Dr. Liu’s passion and attitude for science have influenced many young scientists, including his students and colleagues. On the occasion of his 6oth birthday, we wish Dr. Liu be happy, healthy, and curious about science as well. Professor Dr. Lijian Liu (right) and his wife, Ms Jie Ren (left) P ROFESSOR LIJIAN LIU received his BSc degree of Chemistry from the Central China Normal University (CCNU, Wuhan, China) in 1975 and MSc degree of Chemistry under the guidance of Professor Jingling Zhang in 1981 from the same institute. After receiving Master’s Degree, he worked as an lectuerer in the Department of Chemistry, CCNU from 1982 to 1984. Lijian Liu then moved to China Agricultural University (Beijing, China) to persuit his PhD degree in Applied Chemistry, where he worked in Professor Changhai Zhou’s lab; after Lijian Liu obtained PhD degree in 1988, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) as a postdoctoral fellow till 1989. Dr. Liu returned Wuhan and continued to do postdoctoral research in Professor Renxi Zhuo’s lab in the Department of Chemistry at Wuhan University (Wuhan, China), where he later became a faculty member and was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1999. During 1999-2000, Dr. Liu went to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Montpellier as a Senior Visiting Scholar to Dr. Suming Li’s lab. In the early stage of his scientific career, Dr. Liu also was involved in immobilized enzymes for optical resolution of Chao Zhang received his B. S. degree in Applied Chemistry (1998), and Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry and Physics (2005) under Prof. Dr. Lijian Liu’s guidance from Wuhan University, China. He had been working as postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego from 2006 to 2010. In 2010, Dr. Zhang joined the Biomedical Engineering Program as an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the Sun Yat-sen University, China. His current research interests include the drug delivery matrix, contrast agents for medical imaging, and tissue engineering scaffolds etc. Dr. Zhang is currently the associate editor of the journal Chemical Rapid Communications. This paper was received on May 18, 2014. Affiliations: School of Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China. *Correspondence to Chao Zhang (e-mail: [email protected]). 5