Prof. Liu Zhongfan graduated from Changchun Institute of Technology in 1983 and received his PhD from University of Tokyo in 1990. After a postdoctoral experience at Institute for Molecular Science, Japan, he became an associate professor (1993), full professor (1993) and Cheung Kong Chair professor (1999) of Peking University. He was elected as the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and as one of the six outstanding scientists in Ten-Thousand-Talents Program in 2013. Prof. Liu is the Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK, 2004), the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK, 2014) and the Fellow of TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries, 2015).

He is now the Director of Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI), Vice Chairman of The Central Committee of Jiusan Society, Chairman of The Beijing Municipal Committee of Jiusan Society, Member of The Standing Committee of The National Committee of CPPCC, and the Vice Chairman of The Beijing Municipal Committee of CPPCC.