Dr. Kai Liu received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1998. He then carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California – San Diego. He joined the University of California – Davis faculty in 2001, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and Professor in 2008. He transitioned to the Georgetown University during 2018-19. His research interest is in experimental studies of magnetism and spin transport in nanostructured materials. He was recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005) and a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellowship (2007). He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK, 2011), American Physical Society (2012), IEEE (2016), AAAS (2019), and the National Academy of Inventors (2022). He served as the General Chair for the 61st Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (2016 MMM), and an Associate Editor for APL Materials (2018-19). He currently serves as Chair of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Magnetism (2022-2024).
