Yu Liu started his Ph.D. studies at the University of Barcelona-IREC in 2014 and received his Ph.D. in 2018. From 2018 to 2021, he worked at IST Austria with funding from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant. his research focuses on the bottom-up engineering of chalcogenide nanostructures applied for the development of high-performance thermoelectric materials and on understanding the parameters. After that, he started working as a research professor at Hefei University of Technology from 2021.10.