Prof. Fan LIU
Email: fanliu@bao.ac.cn; fan.liu@monash.edu
National Astronomical Observatories,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
A20 Datun Road, Chaoyang District,
Beijing, 100012, China
I am a research professor at National Astronomical Observatories since 2025. I obtained my PhD degree at Australian National University, Australia in late 2016. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University, Sweden between 2016 - 2019, and at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia between 2019 - 2022. I then worked as a Research Fellow at Monash University between 2022 - 2025.
My studies focus on high-precision stellar spectroscopy. I am searching for chemical signatures of planet formation and engulfment in field and open cluster stars using high quality spectra from Keck, VLT, Gemini and Magellan etc. I am also interested in binary stars, thin/thick disc stars, Galactic chemical evolution and Galactic archeology etc.