Liqun Xu is a Professor and the Vice Dean of the School of Materials and Energy at the Southwest University (SWU). He received a B.S. at the Southeast University in 2009. He graduated with his Ph.D. degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2014. He is a Chongqing Bayu Scholar Young Scholar and the Director of the 7th Council of the Instrument Functional Materials Branch of the Chinese Instrument and Control Society. His research interests include surface antibacterial/antifouling modification and the preparation of advanced antimicrobial agents. He has 124 publications, with 5028 citations and an h-index of 39 (Scopus, 7 December 2023).