Prof. Huan Liu, a faculty member in the School of Optical and Electronic Information at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, has been promoted to professor at the University since November 2016.

In 2009, Prof. Liu joined Professor Sargent’s group as a postdoctoral fellow (Nov. 2009 to Dec. 2011), with partial financial support from the China Scholarship Council. Now Professor Liu’s group at HUST focuses on smart sensing with low-dimensional functional materials for rapid chemical analysis and optoelectronic imaging systems.