Yang Liu received his B.E. degree in Chemistry from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 2009 and received his Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry and Physics from the Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Nankai University (NKU), in 2014. Since then, he has been engaged in teaching and scientific research as a research supervisor at the School of Pharmacology, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China (USC). He also served as a visiting scholar at UCL School of Pharmacy from January 2024 to January 2025. His research focuses on biomedical polymeric hydrogel materials. He has been ranked among World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023 (Stanford University).