Zhongwu Liu obtained his PhD degree from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is a Full Professor at South China University of Technology. Prior to that, he was a research fellow in the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research mainly focuses on permanent magnetic materials, amorphous and nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials, magnetic thin films, magnetic nanomaterials, multi-functional thin films, and oxide nanostructures. He has published over 100 papers on peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has also produced more than 10 patents.