Professor Wuming Liu received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), under the supervision of Academician Zhou Benliang. In the same year, he ranked third nationwide in the number of papers published in Science Citation Index (SCI)-indexed journals and was awarded the CAS President’s Special Scholarship. From 1994 to 1996, Liu conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Physics, CAS, under the supervision of Academician Pu Fuke. From 1996 to 1998, he served as an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS. From 1998 to 2000, he was an Associate Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and from 2000 to 2002, he held the same position at the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, USA. Since 2002, he has been a Research Professor, serving as a Ph.D. supervisor and group leader (T05) at the Institute of Physics, CAS. Liu is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a recipient of the Special Government Allowance of the State Council, Deputy Director of the Laboratory for Condensed Matter and Materials Computation, a member of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Physics, and Chief Scientist of both the National Key Basic Research Program (973 Program) and the National Key R&D Program on “Quantum Manipulation and Quantum Information”.

Since 1991, Liu has published over 530 papers in SCI-indexed journals, including Science (1 paper), Nature Photonics (1 paper), Physical Review Letters (16 papers), Advanced Materials (1 paper), and 210 papers in Physical Review A/B/D/E. He has authored five English monographs published by Springer, and twenty review articles, including two in Physics Reports. At the invitation of Nobel Laureate Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Liu contributed Chapter 3 to Annual Review of Atomic and Molecular Physics, edited by Cohen-Tannoudji. According to the Science Citation Index, his publications since 1991 have been cited over 23,500 times, including citations and references in review articles by Nobel Laureates Eric A. Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle. Liu’s h-index is 75, and he holds five invention patents. He has delivered 50 plenary or invited talks at major international conferences. Notably, in 2010, he gave a plenary talk at the 22nd International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP, Australia)—the first time a Chinese scientist delivered a plenary talk at this conference. His honors include 13 major awards, including the First-Class Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the People’s Liberation Army, the First-Class Beijing Science and Technology Award, and the Zhu Li Yuehua Outstanding Teacher Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.