Guoliang 'Greg' Liu awarded faculty fellowship
Guoliang “Greg” Liu, professor of chemistry in the College of Science, has been honored with appointment as the Leo and Melva Harris Faculty Fellow by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
The L.C. Hassinger Senior Faculty Fellowship in Nanoscience was established to support outstanding scholarship in the field of nanoscience. The donor, William E. Hassinger Jr. '50, who earned a bachelor’s degree in physics, created and named the endowment in honor of his grandfather. This fund was established to provide support for an associate or full professor whose work in one of the fields of science at the nanoscale supports the missions of the college’s Academy of Integrated Science.
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2014, Liu is a core member of the Academy of Integrated Science’s nanoscience degree program and served on the committee that developed this innovative program. He is strongly committed to mentoring undergraduate and graduate research and has guided over 40 undergraduate students and approximately 20 graduate students and postdoctoral students on research projects.
Liu has been named an Inventor of the Month at Virginia Tech and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program award, Air Force Young Investigator Program Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award, ACS Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Young Investigator Award, John C. Schug Research Award, and CAPA Distinguished Professor Award. He has also been recognized as a young talent or emerging investigator by several journals and was recently inducted as a senior elite member into the National Academy of Inventors.
Liu’s research expertise has been recognized with funding from the highest levels, and his work has been featured by hundreds of news media.
Liu received his bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University in China and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He held a postdoctoral position at Northwestern University.
