Rate My Professor Jia Liu

Jia Liu is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 2014 and completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University from 2015 to 2018 before joining the Harvard faculty in 2019. His laboratory focuses on the development of soft bioelectronics, cyborg engineering, genetic and genomic engineering, and computational tools to address questions in brain-machine interfaces, neuroscience, cardiac diseases, and developmental disorders. Professor Liu has pioneered new paradigms in bioelectronics, including soft electronic materials and nanoelectronic architectures for tissue-like electronics, with applications in long-term stable brain-machine interfaces, high-density cardiac mapping, stem cell maturation, and multimodal spatial biology. He is the co-founder and scientific advisor of Axoft, Inc., a brain-machine interface company.

Among his honors and awards are the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (2022), the Advanced Materials Rising Star Award (2022), the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award (2022), the NIH/NIDDK Catalyst Award (2021), the Harvard SEAS LInc Faculty Fellowship (2021), the William F. Milton Award (2020), the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Seed Grant Award (2020), the Harvard Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship (2019-2022), and the Aramont Fellowship for Junior Faculty (2019). He has also received the Springer Thesis Award for Best Thesis (2016) and earlier recognitions including Most Notable Chemistry Research Advances by C&EN (2015) and Top 10 World Changing Ideas by Scientific American (2015).