Professor Jia Liu
Jia Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Rm 3.211, Science & Engineering Complex
150 Western Avenue, Boston, MA 02134
Email: jia_liu@seas.harvard.edu
Professor Liu received his PhD in Chemistry from Harvard University in 2014, after which he completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University from 2015-2018. He joined the faculty at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as an Assistant Professor in 2019. At Harvard University, Professor Liu’s lab focuses on the development of soft bioelectronics, cyborg engineering, genetic/genomic engineering, and computational tools for addressing questions in brain-machine interfaces, neuroscience, cardiac diseases, and developmental disorders.
Professor Liu has pioneered in bioelectronics where he developed new paradigms for soft electronic materials and nanoelectronics architectures for “tissue-like electronics”, as well as their applications for long-term stable brain-machine interface, high-density cardiac mapping, stem cell maturation, and multimodal spatial biology. He is also the cofounder and scientific advisor of Axoft, Inc., a brain-machine interface company.
Selected Honors and Awards
- Inventor Under 35 (Global List) by MIT Technology Review (2022)
- Rising Star Award by Advanced Materials (2022)
- AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2022)
- NIH/NIDDK Catalyst Award (DP1, NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program) (2021)
- MRS Best Symposium Presentation Award (2021)
- Harvard SEAS LInc Faculty Fellowship (2021)
- William F. Milton Award (2020)
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute Seed Grant Award (2020)
- Harvard Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship (2019-2022)
- Aramont Fellowship for Junior Faculty (2019)
- Springer Thesis Award for Best Thesis (2016)
- Most Notable Chemistry Research Advances by C&EN (2015)
- Top 10 World Changing Ideas by Scientific American (2015)
- Harvard Fieser Lectureship Award (2012)
- Academic Scholarship of Individual Scientific and Technology Innovation (2009)
- Hui-Chun Chin and Tsung-Dao Lee Fellowship (2007-2008)
- Exxon Mobil Scholarship (2008)