Dr. Guangyu Liu is currently an Associate Professor and PI at the School of Basic Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University. He also serves as the Deputy General Manager of Technology at LC-Bio Technologies.

Dr. Liu completed his entire academic training—from undergraduate studies through his postdoctoral research—at the University of Oxford. He pursued his Ph.D. and postdoctoral research under the supervision of the distinguished bacteriologist Professor Christoph Tang. Notably, he was awarded the Excellence Postdoctoral Prize by the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford.

His research primarily focuses on the mechanisms by which antimicrobial resistance transmits among bacterial pathogens, as well as developing novel gene editing technology for non-model bacteria. He has published in prestigious journals such as EMBO Journal, eLife, and PLOS Pathogens, and currently hosts a project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

In recognition of his achievements, Dr. Liu was selected for the High-level Overseas Talent Program and recognized as a Category C Talent in Hangzhou in 2022. He serves as a committee member of the Medical Microbiology Committee of the Zhejiang Society for Microbiology, as a Editorial Board Member for the Society for General Microbiology's journal, Microbiology, and as a Youth Editorial Board Member for Military Medical Research, iMeta.