Weiping Liu was born in 1986 in Pingxiang, Jiangxi province, China, and received his BSc in chemistry from Jiujiang University in 2009 and M.Sc degree in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Zhiping Li from Renmin University of China. In June 2016, he obtained his PhD degree from the Georg-August-University Goettingen (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lutz Ackermann. After a short postdoctoral stay at the same group, he moved from Goettingen to Rostock, and joined the group of Prof. Dr. Matthias Beller (LIKAT Rostock, Germany) as a postdoctoral research fellow in May 2017. Since August 2019, he has been appointed as full professor and initiated his independent research career at Donghua University. His current research interests include homogenous catalysis, synthetic methodology, asymmetric catalysis, as well as catalytic depolymerisation of plastic waste.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1064-7276
