/ Members /

Ko-pin Liu

/ 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)
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
Selected as an Outstanding Alumnus of the 3rd Class, 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
Mode-, bond-, and stereo-selective chemistry
Ultrafast photochemistry/photophysics
Coherent and correlation in molecular processes

/ Works /

“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, Science 286, 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, Science 300, 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. USA 105, 12667 (2008)
“CH stretching excitation in the early barrier F + CHD3 reaction inhibits CH bond cleavage”, W. Zhang, H. Kawamata, and K. Liu, Science 325, 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, Science 331, 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)

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