Meilin Liu currently holds the Hightower Chair and serves as the Regents' Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He earned his BS from the South China University of Technology and his MS and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, in situ/operando characterization, and multi-scale simulation of thin films, membranes, and electrodes in energy storage and conversion devices. The primary goal is to achieve a rational design of materials and structures with unique functionalities for chemical and energy transformation.

Meilin Liu is an elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS, 2011), the Electrochemical Society (ECS, 2012), the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM, 2021), and the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc, 2024). He has received numerous prestigious honors and awards, including the HTM Outstanding Achievement Award (ECS, 2018), the Charles Hatchett Award (UK Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 2018), the Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award (Georgia Tech, twice in 2013 and 1999), the Ross Coffin Purdy Award (ACerS, 2010), the Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development Award (Georgia Tech, 2003), the Sustained Research Award (Sigma Xi, 2003), and the National Young Investigator Award (NSF, 1993). To date, he holds 33 US patents, has published more than 680 refereed articles, and has delivered over 200 plenary, keynote, or invited lectures worldwide. Since 2018, he has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in the fields of Materials Science, Chemistry, and/or Environment and Ecology.