Chuan Liu is Deputy Director, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Associate Researcher at the Chongqing Science and Technology Innovation Center of Northwestern Polytechnical University. He received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University. In 2021, he was awarded the titles of "Outstanding Graduate Student" and "Distinguished Doctoral Candidate" by Northeastern University. He has published nine SCI-indexed papers in the fields of value-added utilization and safe disposal of secondary rare and precious metal resources, as well as rare and precious metal alloy materials. His current research focuses on the design and forming of rare and precious metal-based ultra-high-temperature structural alloys and the sustainable processing of secondary rare and precious metal resources.