Xin Liu received his PhD degree from Dalian University of Technology in 2006, where he now serves as an associate professor in Chemistry. In these years, he also worked as a visiting scholar at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics from 2006 to 2008, with a CSC fellowship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2010, as a postdoc fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from 2010 to 2011, as a visiting scholar at University of Virginia (UVA) in 2014 , as a visiting research consultant at KAUST in 2015, as a visiting professor at Université Paris-Est in 2017, as a visiting research consultant at KAUST in 2018 and as an academic visitor to Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organo Metallici Consiglio, Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy in 2019. He is now serving as a key member of "Synthesis and Application of Inorganic Microporous Materials" research team headed by Prof. Changgong Meng at Department of Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology. His research interests mainly focus on the theoretical design of functional nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications. He has authored more than 110 papers in renowned journals, including J. Am. Chem. Soc., ACS Catal., Chem. Mater., Nanoscale, Catal. Sci. Technol., ChemCatChem, J. Phys. Chem. C, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. and etc.

He also serves as reviewer for renown academic journals, including Nature Communications, Electrochimica Acta, Nanoscale, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Carbon, Journal of Physical ChemistryA/B/C, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, RSC Advances, Solid State Science, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A- Chemical, Applied Physics A, Applied Surface Science, Journal of Porous Materials, and etc., and as reviewer for international research fund granting agencies, including National Natural Science Foundation of China, Qatar National Research Fund, Czech Science Foundation and etc.