E-mail kpliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw Office 336 Tel. of office +886-2-2366-8259 Laboratory 333 Tel. of Lab. +886-2-2366-8257
Education
B.S., 1971, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Ph.D., 1977, The Ohio State University, USA
Experience
Research Scientist II, Experimental Engineering Station, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA (1981)
Staff Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA (1982 ~ 1993)
Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (1993 ~ 2001)
Director, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2001~ 2004)
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2002 ~ present)
Distinguished Research Chair Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan Universiry, Taipei, Taiwan (2010~ present)
Research Interests
Mode-, bond-, and stereo-selective chemistry
Ultrafast photochemistry/photophysics
Coherent and correlation in molecular processes
Honors, Awards, and Recognitions
Scholarly Chair, Lin Jun-San Foundation, 1993 ~ 1996.
Fellow, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, 1996 ~ 2006.
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1998.
The First Presidential Science Prize of Taiwan, 2001.
Distinguished Alumni, National Tsing Hua University, 2002.
Academician, Academia Sinica, 2004.
Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), 2005.
Academia Sinica Investigator Award, 2008 ~ 2012.
NSC-NRC Eminent Researchers Award, 2009 ~ 2010.
Honorary Chair Professor, National Tsing Hua University, 2010 ~ 2012.
Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2011.
CUSO (Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale) Lectureship, Switzerland, 2012.
Honorary Lectureship, XXV International Symposium on Molecular Beam, 2013.
Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2013.
Professor C. T. Chang Memorial Lectureship, 2014.
Richard B. Bernstein Award, 2014.
Member, European Academy of Sciences (EUAS), 2018.
Selected Publications
“Reaction dynamics of O(1D) + H2, D2 and HD: A direct evidence for the elusive abstraction pathway and the estimation of its branching", Y.-T. Hsu, J.-H. Wang, and K. Liu, J. Chem. Phys.107, 2351 (1997)
“van der Waals interactions in the Cl + HD reaction", D. Skouteris, D.E. Manolopoulos, W. Bian, H.-J. Werner, L.-H. Lai, and K. Liu, Science286, 1713 (1999)
“Observation of a transition state resonance in the integral cross section of the F + HD reaction", R. T. Skodje, D. Skouteris, D. E. Manolopoulos, S.-H. Lee, F. Dong., and K. Liu, J. Chem. Phys. 112, 4536 (2000)
“Resonance-mediated chemical reaction: F + HD -> HF +D", R. T. Skodje, D. Skouteris, D. E. Manolopoulos, S.-H. Lee, F. Dong., and K. Liu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1206 (2000)
“Crossed-beam studies of neutral reactions: state-specific differential cross sections", K. Liu, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 52, 139 (2001)
“Application of time-sliced ion velocity imaging to crossed molecular beam experiments", J. J. Lin, J. Zhou, W. Shiu, and K. Liu, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74, 2495 (2003)
“State-specific correlation of coincident product pairs in the F + CD4 reaction", J. J. Lin, J. Zhou, W. Shiu, and K. Liu, Science300, 966 (2003)
“Reactive resonance in a polyatomic reaction", W. Shiu, J. J. Lin, and K. Liu, Phys. Rev. Lett.92, 103201 (2004)
“Do vibrational excitations of CHD3 preferentially promote reactivity toward the chlorine atom?”, S. Yan, Y.-T.Wu, B. Zhang, X.-F. Yue, and K. Liu, Science 316, 1723 (2007)
“Product pair correlation in bimolecular reactions", K. Liu, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 9, 17 (2007)
“Tracking the energy flow along the reaction path", S. Yan, Y.-T.Wu, and K. Liu, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA105, 12667 (2008)
“CH stretching excitation in the early barrier F + CHD3 reaction inhibits CH bond cleavage", W. Zhang, H. Kawamata, and K. Liu, Science325, 303 (2009)
“Deciphering the nature of the reactive resonance in F + CHD3: Correlated differential cross-sections of the two isotopic channels", J. Zhou, J. J. Lin, and K. Liu, Mol. Phys. 108, 957 (2010)
“Enlarging the reactive cone of acceptance by exciting the C-H bond in the O(3P) + CHD3 reaction", F. Wang and K. Liu, Chem. Sci.1, 126 (2010)
“Steric control of the reaction of CH stretch-excited CHD3 with chlorine atom", F. Wang, J.-S. Lin, and K. Liu, Science331, 900 (2011)
"Quantum Dynamical Resonances in Chemical Reactions: From A + BC to Polyatomic Systems", K. Liu, Adv. Chem. Phys. 149, 1 (2012)
“Revealing the Stereo-Specific Chemistry in the Reaction of Cl with Aligned CHD3(v1=1)", F. Wang, K. Liu, and T. P. Rakitzis, Nat. Chem. 4, 636 (2012).
“How to measure a complete set of polarization-dependent differential cross sections in a scattering experiment with aligned reagents?, F. Wang, J.-S. Lin, and K. Liu, J. Chem. Phys.140, 084202 (2014)
"Imaging the Stereodynamics of Cl + CH4(ν3=1): Polarization Dependence on the Rotational Branch and the Hyperfine Depolarization", Huilin Pan, Jiayue Yang, Fengyan Wang, and Kopin Liu, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 5, 3878-3883 (2014)
"Perspective: Vibrational-Induced Steric Effects in Bimolecular Reactions", K. Liu, Joural of Chemical Physics, 142, 080901(2015)
"Vibrational Control of Bimolecular Reactions with Methane by Mode, Bond, and Stereo Selectivity", K. Liu,Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 67, 91-111 (2016)
"Control of Chemical Reactivity by Transition-State and Beyond", H. Guo and K. Liu,Chemical Science, 7, 3992-4003 (2016)