2010年4月在哈爾濱工業大學獲環境工程專業博士學位。
2011年7月加入中科院重慶綠色智能技術研究院，主要開展電化學水處理與資源化原理及技術方面的研究。
2016年入選中科院青促會。
2021年獲國家優秀青年基金。
水污染過程與防治研究中心
《Chinese Chemical Letters》（中國化學快報）青年編委、《工業水處理》青年編委、中國化學會高級會員
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[2]Yuan Liu*, Ying-Ying Deng, Qi Zhang, Hong Liu. Overview of recent developments of resource recovery from wastewater via electrochemistry-based technologies. Science of The Total Environment. 2021, 757(25), 143901.
[3]Yangyang Gao, Sha Wang, Fengjun Yin, Pin Hu, Xingzu Wang, Yuan Liu*, Hong Liu. Enhancing sensitivity of microbial fuel cell sensors for low concentration biodegradable organic matter detection: Regulation of substrate concentration, anode area and external resistance. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 2021, 101, 227–235.
[4]Meiling Liao, Yuan Liu*, Enling Tian, Weiqi Ma, Hong Liu. Phosphorous removal and high-purity struvite recovery from hydrolyzed urine with spontaneous electricity production in Mg-air fuel cell. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2020, 391, 123517.
[5]Yuan Liu*, Yi-Song Fan, Zhi-Mei Liu. Pyrolysis of iron phthalocyanine on activated carbon as highly efficient non-noble metal oxygen reduction catalyst in microbial fuel cells. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2019, 361: 416–427.
[6]Yuan Liu*, Zhimei Liu, Hong Liu, Meiling Liao. Novel porous nitrogen doped graphene/carbon black composites as efficient oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst for power generation in microbial fuel cell. Nanomaterials. 2019, 9: 836.
[7]Yuan Liu*, Zhi-Mei Liu. Promoted activity of nitrogen-doped activated carbon as a highly efficient oxygen reduction catalyst in microbial fuel cells. Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. 2019, 49: 119–133.
[8]Yuan Liu, Ai-Xue Tuo, Xiao-Jun Jin, Xiang-Zhong Li, Hong Liu*. Quantifying biodegradable organic matter in polluted water on the basis of coulombic yield. Talanta. 2018, 176, 485–491.
[9]Yuan Liu, Xiao-Jun Jin, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Hong Liu*, Yu-Ming Huang*. Homogeneous deposition-assisted synthesis of iron-nitrogen composites on graphene as highly efficient non-precious metal electrocatalysts for microbial fuel cell power generation. Journal of Power Sources. 2015, 278: 773-781.
[10]Yuan Liu, Hong Liu*, Chuan Wang, Shuang-Xia Hou, Nuan Yang. Sustainable energy recovery in wastewater treatment by microbial fuel cells: Stable power generation with nitrogen-doped graphene cathode. Environmental Science & Technology. 2013, 47: 13889-13895.
1.2022.1-2024.12，國家自然科學基金優秀青年科學基金項目，52122007，電化學廢水資源循環，200萬元，主持
2.2020.1-2023.12，國家自然科學基金面上項目，51978641，多級電化學系統中電極反應調控對尿液氮磷回收的作用機制，直接經費60萬元，主持
3.2016.1-2019.12，國家自然科學基金面上項目，51578526，陰極多功能微觀反應環境的構建及對微生物燃料電池可持續產電性能的作用機制研究，直接經費62萬元，主持
4.2016.1-2019.12，中科院青年促進會人才項目，2016341，基于電化學原理的水污染控制及能源化研究，70萬元，主持
