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Dr. Yun Liu is a DECRA Fellow (2023-2025) at the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, within the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology. She is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students and leads an active research program in biomedical engineering and drug delivery systems.
Dr. Liu completed her PhD at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at the University of Queensland in April 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Chun-Xia Zhao (NHMRC Leadership Fellow) and Prof. Anton Middelberg (Former Federation Fellow).
Her research focuses on multifunctional nanomaterials with customizable drug loading and regulated release capabilities. She has pioneered innovative approaches including sequential nanoprecipitation technology and salt-induced nanoprecipitation platforms that create nanoparticles with exceptionally high drug loading capacity (up to 66.5%). Her work integrates principles from chemical engineering, materials science, and biomedical engineering to develop advanced drug delivery systems. Recent publications demonstrate her expertise in nanoparticle mechanics, biomimetic coatings, and microfluidic fabrication techniques for therapeutic applications.
- DECRA Fellow (2023-2025)
Dr. Liu has published 35 papers, including 14 as first or corresponding author, in prestigious journals such as PNAS and Angewandte Chemie, accumulating over 2,100 citations (H-index 23). She is the key inventor on three patents (one licensed) and currently supervises six PhD students working in the drug delivery field within Prof. Chun-Xia Zhao's research group. Her research has resulted in technologies that have been successfully licensed to industry.
Her laboratory specializes in developing advanced drug delivery systems using microfluidic techniques to produce nanomaterial libraries and tumor-on-a-chip models for nanoparticle assessment, with particular focus on mechanical properties of nanoparticles and their impact on cellular interactions.
