Professor Zhongmin Liu received his BS degree in Physical Chemistry from Zhengzhou University in 1983 and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1990. He has been the Director of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS since 2017.
In 2006, as a leading scientist, Professor Liu, together with partners and his colleagues, has successfully accomplished the industrial demonstration test of DMTO technology. Based on DMTO technology, the world’s first commercial MTO unit was built by Shenhua group, which was a milestone for coal to chemicals. Besides DMTO, Professor Liu has also developed many other new catalysts and catalytic process, such as propylene to isopropanol, and methanol to dimethyl ether. Many of them have been commercialized.
He cultivated more than 40 graduate students for Ph.D degree and M.Sc degree, published more than 300 papers, and applies more than 390 patents. He is the member of International Academic Committee of 13th, 14th and 17th International Zeolite Conference, editorial board of "Journal of Chinese Catalysis" and "Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry", guest professor of Namur University. He has also given many invited presentation on international conferences.
