Ping Liu

Dr. Ping Liu is a Professor in the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering and holds the William Coles Endowed Chair in the Jacobs School of Engineering of Nanoengineering. He also serves as Director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) at UC San Diego. His work on rechargeable lithium batteries includes design of both solid and liquid electrolytes, sulfur cathodes, and safety. Prior to joining the Jacobs School faculty in 2016, Prof. Liu was a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), where he initiated and managed research programs in energy storage for electric vehicles and thermal management technologies to improve building energy efficiency. He was the manager of the Energy Technology Department at HRL Laboratories and was a research staff member with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Prof. Liu has published 150 peer-reviewed papers and has been issued 50 US patents in the broad areas of batteries, fuel cells, sensors and actuators. He received an R&D 100 Award for a solid state battery technology developed at NREL.