Tiemin Liu earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2009, and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow both in HMS/BIDMC and UTSW. In 2014, he became a Lecturer at USTW. He has been a Professor at Fudan University since 2017. He is the Head of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, the School of Life Science. He is also the Chief Scientist of the Development Programming and Metabolic Regulation—the Key Special Project of the National Key R&D Program. His research focuses on the anti-obesity neurocircuitry in the brain using conditional, neuron-specific genetic engineering techniques (Cre/loxP recombination) to regulate gene expression in the mouse brain. He currently extends his research interests to the brain regulation of peripheral tissues including adipose, muscle, liver, etc.