Dr. Zhen Liu has been a Distinguished Professor of Nanjing University since 2014. He was appointed as a full professor at Nanjing University in 2005. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2014. He is an associate editor of Analytical Methods and an advisory board member of multiple journals. He serves as an executive council member of Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society, a board member of the Society for Molecular Imprinting, and member of multiple academic societies. He was awarded the 2020 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award by American Chemical Society (ACS).