Shih-Yuan Liu received his BS degree in Chemistry from Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 1998. He did his doctoral work at MIT with Prof. Gregory C. Fu and received his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry in 2003. He then pursued his postdoctoral studies in inorganic chemistry with Prof. Daniel G. Nocera, also at MIT. He started his independent career as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oregon in 2006, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012. He joined the Department of Chemistry at Boston College as a Full Professor in 2013. His research interests include the development of boron-nitrogen heterocycles for materials and biomedical applications.
- Author Profile from Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Education
| 2003–2006 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral. Advisor: Daniel G. Nocera (Inorganic Chemistry) |
| 1998–2003 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. (2003). Advisor: Gregory C. Fu (Organic Chemistry) |
| 1997–1998 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Undergraduate Exchange Student under the TASSEP Program (Chemistry) |
| 1995–1997 | Vienna University of Technology, 1st Diploma in Chemistry (B.S. equivalent, 1998) |
Appointments
Professional Appointments
| 2019– | International Guest Chair, the Energy and Environment Solutions Initiative at University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour (E2S-UPPA) |
| 2013– | Full Professor of Chemistry, Boston College |
| 2012–2013 | Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon |
| 2010–2013 | Director, Master’s industrial internship program in organic synthesis at the University of Oregon |
| 2006–2012 | Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon |
Professional Service
| 2022-2023 | Chem. Soc. Rev. guest editor for a themed issue on the Applications of Main Group Chemistry in Synthesis, Catalysis, and Biomedical and Materials Research |
| 2022 | 2021 Top 10% reviewer for Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Journal |
| 2021 | Co-organizer, Pacifichem 2021, Symposium “Unusual Structure and Reactivity in the Main Group: From Fundamental to Functional Materials (#222)” |
| 2018-2019 | Chem. Soc. Rev. guest editor for a themed issue on Contemporary Research in Boron Chemistry |
| 2018 | Chair of the organizing committee for the 16th Boron Chemistry Meeting in the Americas (BORAM) at Boston College |
| 2016– | Advisory board member for the Boron in the Americas Organization |
| 2015 | Co-organizer, Pacifichem 2015, Symposium “Organo-Main Group Avenues toward Advanced Materials (#16)” |
| 2012– | Editorial advisory board member for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC). 2017 Outstanding Reviewer for OBC. |
| 2012–2016 | Project lead for the collaborative DOE EERE project “Novel Carbon(C)- Boron(B)-Nitrogen(N)-Containing H2 Storage Materials” |
| 2010–2016 | US representative to the International Energy Agency (IEA), Hydrogen Implementing Agreement (HIA) Hydrogen Storage Task |
| 2009 | Local co-organizer, “Hydrogen Road Tour ’09” Eugene Stop |
| 2008–2013 | Academic advisor and lead contact at University of Oregon, Trans Atlantic Science Student Exchange Program (TASSEP) |
Awards
| 2010 | NSF Career Award (declined due to overlap with NIH funding) |
| 2012 | Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry Award for Early Excellence |
| 2012 | Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award |
| 2014 | ACS Organometallics Young Investigator Fellow |
| 2016 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2018 | Boron in the Americas Award in recognition for Distinguished Achievement in Boron Chemistry |
Research Interests
| Synthetic organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry, boron heterocycles, novel aromatic compounds, hydrogen storage, optoelectronic materials, boron-containing biomimetics |