Weiwei Liu, Doctor degree, Professor, College of  Electronic Information and Optical, graduated from Laval University( Canada).
Special Talent：Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education.
Address：No.38，tongyan road，haihe education district，Tianjin，China.
Telephone：13642079278
Email：liuweiwei@nankai.edu.cn

Research Group Website：https://imo.nankai.edu.cn/femto/cdefault.html
Research Interest：

Ultrafast laser science and application

Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging

Optical engineering for space science

History：

1994-1998  Bachelor degree, Institute of Physics, Nankai University, China

1998 - 2000  Engineer, Institute of Physics, Nankai University, China 2001-2005 Ph. D degree, Department of Physics, Laval University, Canada

2004  Visiting scholar, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex System, Germany

2006 - 2007 Post-doctor, Center for Optics, Laser and Photonics (COPL), Laval University, Canada

Honors and Awards

2011 ，Wang Daheng’s Optics Prize of the Chinese Optical Society, the top optics prize in China

2011，Jin Guofan Prize for excellent youth of the China Instrument Society

2015，Scientific Chinese Figures

2015，Excellent young scientist award of the national annual conference in THz science and Technology

2015，Outstanding Chinese young scientific and technological workers

2016，First Prize of Tianjin City’s Natural Science Award

2017，Tianjin City’s May lst Labour Day Medal

2017，Tianjin City’s Award for High-level Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team

2018，Tianjin City’s Award for Expert with Outstanding Contribution

2018，Prize of Excellence of Tianjin City’s Patent Award

2019，Tianjin City’s Leading Talent award in the Innovation Leadership Program in Sciences and Technologies for Young and Middle-aged Scientists

2019，Tianjin City’s Excellent Scientist

2019，Prize of Excellence for Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration (2019) awarded by China

2019，Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association

Gold medal of Tianjin City’s Patent Award

2020，Second Prize of Tianjin City’s Technical Invention Award

2021，Optica (formally OSA) fellow

2021  Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize) – Wide-Spectrum On-Orbit Air Pollution Detection Technology

2022  Chair Professor appointed by Ministry of Education

2022  Tianjin Educational Achievement Award (First Prize)

2024  COS (Chinese Optical Society) Fellow

2024  Tianjin Outstanding Talent

2025  The 11th Chinese Society for Optical Engineering Science and Technology Award Second Prize of Natural Science

2025  Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award

Scientific Achievements & Selected Publications

Has led and successfully executed more than 20 research projects financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program, National manned space program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Special Support Plan for Talent Development in Tianjin and open research funds of State Key Laboratories.

Has published more than 300 scientific papers in refereed journals, total citation number is more than 12000, H index reaches 56. (Google scholar).

Selected Publications:

1.   Ye Tian, Jiansheng Liu*, Yafeng Bai, Shiyi Zhou, Haiyi Sun, Weiwei Liu*, Jiayu Zhao, Ruxin Li*, Zhizhan Xu*, Femtosecond-laser-driven wire-guided helical undulator for intense terahertz radiation, Nat, Photon., 11, 242 (2017)

2.   Zhiwenqi An, Pengfei Qi, Jiayun Xue, Haiyi Liu, Yuezheng Wang, Lu Sun, Olga G Kosareva, See Leang Chin, Pierre Agostini, Weiwei Liu*, Cascaded four-wave mixing decorated supercontinuum with discrete colorful rings during filamentation, High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 13 (2026)

3.   Pengfei Qi, Haiyi Liu, Jiewei Guo, Nan Zhang, Lu Sun, Shishi Tao, Binpeng Shang, Lie Lin, Weiwei Liu*, Filament based ionizing radiation sensing, Opto-Electronic Advances, 8, 250144(2025)

4.   Yuezheng Wang, Lu Sun, Zhiwenqi An, Zeliang Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Nan Zhang, Pengfei Qi, Lie Lin, Weiwei Liu*, Polarization-dependent neutral nitrogen fluorescence induced by long-distance laser filamentation, Photonics Research, 13, 1691(2025)

5.   Jianshuo Wang, Zhijun Zhang, Shiyi Zhou, Zhiyong Qin, Changhai Yu, Yuteng Cao, Yan Lv, Jiaming Chen, Huali Huang, Weiwei Liu*, Jiansheng Liu*, Radiation Dynamics and Manipulation of Extreme Terahertz Surface Wave on a Metal Wire, 19, 2400954(2025)

6.   Zhiqiang Yu, Nan Zhang, Jianxin Wang, Zijie Dai, Cheng Gong, Lie Lin, Lanjun Guo, Weiwei Liu, 0.35% THz pulse conversion efficiency achieved by Ti: sapphire femtosecond laser filamentation in argon at 1 kHz repetition rate, Opto-Electronic Advances, 5，210065(2022)

7.   Zijie Dai, Manukumara Manjappa, Yunkun Yang, Thomas Cai Wei Tan, Bo Qiang, Song Han, Liang Jie Wong, Faxian Xiu,* Weiwei Liu,*, and Ranjan Singh*, High Mobility 3D Dirac Semimetal (Cd3As2) for Ultrafast Photoactive Terahertz Photonics, Adv. Funct. Mater.,31, 2011011 (2021)

8.   Q.Su, L. Sun, C. Chu, Z. Zhang, N. Zhang, L. Lin, Z. Zeng*, O. Kosareva, W. Liu*, S. L. Chin, Effect of Molecular Orbital Angular Momentum on Spatial Distribution of Fluorescence during Femtosecond Laser Filamentation in Air, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 11, 730 (2020)

9.   J. Zhao, W. Liu*, S. Li, D. Lu, Y. Zhang, Y. Peng, Y. Zhu, and S. Zhuang, Clue to a thorough understanding of terahertz pulse generation by femtosecond laser filamentation, Photon. Res., 6, 296 (2018)

10. J. Zhao, W. Chu, Z. Wang, Y. Peng, C. Gong, L. Lin, Y. Zhu, W. Liu*, Y. Cheng, S. Zhuang, and Z. Xu, Strong Spatial Confinement of Terahertz Wave inside Femtosecond Laser Filament, ACS Photon., 2338, 3 (2016)

Professional Cultivation

Supervised over 20 doctoral students and more than 60 master students.