LIU Qingya

  Qingya LIU received her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Shanxi Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. She was a faculty member at Ocean University of China in 2004-2005 and then at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) since 2005, and was promoted to professor at 2011. She was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University of U.S. in 2014, the Vice Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering of BUCT in 2017-2023 and has been the Director of the Academic Affairs Office of BUCT since 2023. She was admitted to the Chang Jiang Scholars program as Distinguished Professor in 2024.

  Her research interests include efficient and clean conversion of heavy organic resources to fuels and chemicals, new technologies for syntheses of calcium carbide and downstream products, application of electromagnetic induction technology in chemical engineering. She has authored more than 120 academic articles in peer reviewed journals and been awarded 2 international patents and 18 Chinese patents. She was selected to the Beijing New Star Plan of Science and Technology in 2007 and New Century Excellent Talents Program in 2011. She is currently editorial board members of Chinese scientific journals, including Low-Carbon Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Coal Chemical Industry, and Clean Coal Technology, as well as a member of the Engineering Thermochemistry Professional Committee of The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China.