Chang Liu, PhD

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering at University of California at Irvine

Chang Liu received his BA in Chemistry summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2005 and his PhD in Chemical Biology from Scripps Research in 2009 as an NSF Fellow and Hertz Fellow. He completed his postdoctoral training as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley in 2012 and started his lab at UC Irvine in 2013. Professor Liu’s independent research is in the fields of synthetic biology, chemical biology, and directed evolution, and focuses on engineering specialized genetic systems for rapid evolution. His work has been recognized by multiple awards, most recently the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award, the Moore Inventor Fellowship, the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Innovator Award, and the UC Irvine Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research.