Education and Work Experiences:

2020.7- Associate Professor, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy (DNL), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP);

2017.1-2020.4 Postdoc, Institute for Chemical Research (ICR), Kyoto University, Japan;

2012.10-2016.10 DPhil in Condensed Matter Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. (Supervisor：Prof. Henry Snaith);

2008.9-2012.7 B.Sc in Physics, Tsinghua University;

Research Interests:

Understanding and improving photovoltaic devices based on metal halide perovskite absorbers. Developing efficient and stable lead-free perovskite as environmentally friendly photovoltaic material.

Representative Publications:

[1]J. Liu, M. Ozaki, S. Yakumaru, T. Handa, R. Nishikubo, Y. Kanemitsu, A. Saeki, Y. Murata, R. Murdey, A. Wakamiya. Lead-Free Solar Cells based on Tin Halide Perovskite Films with High Coverage and Improved Aggregation. Angew. Chemie Int. Ed.2018, 57, 13221–13225.

[2]J. Liu, S. K. Pathak, N. Sakai, R. Sheng, S. Bai, Z. Wang, H. J. Snaith. Identification and Mitigation of a Critical Interfacial Instability in Perovskite Solar Cells Employing Copper Thiocyanate Hole-Transporter. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 3, 1600571;

[3]J. Liu, S. K. Pathak, T. Stergiopoulos, T. Leijtens, K. Wojciechowski, S. Schumann, N. Kausch-Busies, H. J. Snaith. Employing PEDOT as the p-type Charge Collection Layer in Regular Organic-inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 1666–1673;