1. Brief Profile
Yi LIU, professor, deputy director of School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), member of the Instrument Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning.
He received his doctor’s degree in optics from Peking University in 2006. Then he went to École Polytechnique in Paris for post-doctoral research and was appointed as a tenured associate researcher at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2009. In 2014, he obtained the Doctoral supervisor qualification in Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC). In 2015, he returned to work as a full-time professor at School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
His research work focuses on ultrafast nonlinear optics, the current research interests include air lasing, generation and detection of terahertz radiation in air plasma, nonlinear propagation of ultrafast laser pulses in air, high order harmonics generation and applications, and the interaction of femtosecond laser with solid surface. At present, he has published more than 60 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 11 Physical Review Letters papers. He has contributed three chapters in English monographs. His 3 papers have been specially reported by Physics Review Focus of the American Physical Society and Laser Focus World of the American Optical Society. His papers have been cited more than 2200 times, and the H factor is 26. He has given more than 20 invited talks in international conferences, among which he was invited by CLEO in 2015 to deliver an invitation talk. For now, he is in charge of three national and provincial-level projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is a member of the Youth Editorial Committee of China Laser Press and has served as a guest editor of JOSAB of OSA.
2. Research Area
Ultrafast nonlinear optics, air lasing, Terahertz spectroscopy, high order harmonics generation and application
3. Contact Information
Email address: yi.liu@usst.edu.cn
