Prof. Po-Liang Liu
National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan
Po-Liang Liu is currently a Professor of Graduate Institute of Precision Engineering at National Chung-Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan. He had conducted postdoctoral research as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Distinguished Research Fellow Sheng-Hsien Lin’s laboratory at Academia Sinica, Taiwan since July 2003 and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Professor Ignatius S. T. Tsong’s laboratory at Arizona State University (ASU) since July 2004. Since that time he conducted theoretical and computational research on the determination of interface and surface energies between epitaxial films and substrates. He had also conducted some epitaxial growth experiments. In addition, he collaborated actively with Professor John Kouvetakis and Andrew Chizmeshya of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at ASU. He joined the faculty of National Chung-Hsing University as an Assistant Professor in 2006. Since then his research has been funded continuously by grants awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan. He has directed or co-directed 17 research projects dealing with surfaces and thin films of wide bandgap semiconductor and has received over U.S.$ 2,422,000 in grant support over the past 9 years. His research results have been published in over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences with an international circulation including the top journals such as “Physical Review Letters”. His current research interests are in the field of semiconductor thin-film growth, nanotechnology, surface science, and hydrogen storages. He had won 3rd Best Poster Awards out of 62 (40) posters in 2011 (2012) Conference on National Center for High-performance Computing-High Performance Computing, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He was invited to serve as the Conference Chair, Keynote Speaker, or Session Chair in International Conference on Applied Physics and Mathematics (ICAPM) in 2014 and 2015. He was also a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Physics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (Aug. 2014 – Jan. 2015).