Wei Liu
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Virginia Tech
email: liuwei@vt.edu
Education:
University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017
Princeton University
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2014
Peking University
B.S. in Chemistry, 2008
Wei completed his undergraduate studies at Peking University in 2008 and then pursued his Ph.D. at Princeton University under the supervision of Prof. John T. Groves, where he investigated metalloporphyrin-catalyzed C–H halogenation reactions. He subsequently carried out postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Chris Chang at UC Berkeley.
Wei began his independent career in 2017 at Miami University, moved to the University of Cincinnati in 2020, and is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech. Research in the Liu Lab focuses on understanding the reactivity of metal complexes at unusually high oxidation states and harnessing these species to tackle long-standing challenges in organic synthesis and biomedical studies
Virgnia Tech, Department of Chemistry
Associate Professor, 2025 - present
University of Cincinnati, Department of Chemistry
Assistant and Associate Professor, 2020-2025
Miami University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Assistant Professor, 2017-2020