Yan Liu is a professor of Peking University School of Stomatology. She studied as a joint-PhD student at Augusta University from 2009 to 2010, and received her PhD from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2011, then joined the faculty at Peking University School of Stomatology in 2011. She also worked as a visiting associated professor in University of California Los Angeles from 2018 to 2019. Her research focuses on bio-inspired nanomaterials for multifunctional applications.