Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from University of Virginia in 2020
M.S. in Engineering Thermophysics from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015
B.S. in Thermal and Power Engineering from Shandong University in 2012

May 2025 - present, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Feb 2024 - May 2025, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
Oct 2022 - Jan 2024, Associate Research Scholar, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Ultrafast laser spectroscopy
Plasma
Electrified manufacturing
3D tomographic imaging
Reactive flows

Positions Available:
Multiple positions are available including PhD students, Postdoc, Research Assistant, and Visiting Students/Scholars, etc. Please feel free to contact me via nl9j@sjtu.edu.cn.

National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas)

Full publication list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DlHZ61MAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected Publications (# Equal contribution, † corresponding author)
◆ Hua Xie#; Ning Liu#; Qian Zhang#; Hongtao Zhong; Liqun Guo; Xinpeng Zhao; Daozheng Li; Shufeng Liu; Zhennan Huang; Aditya Dilip Lele; Alexandra H. Brozena; Xizheng Wang; Keqi Song; Sophia Chen; Yan Yao; Miaofang Chi; Wei Xiong; Jiancun Rao; Minhua Zhao; Mikhail N. Shneider; Jian Luo; Ji-Cheng Zhao†; Yiguang Ju†; Liangbing Hu†; A stable atmospheric-pressure plasma for extreme-temperature synthesis, Nature, 2023, 623(7989): 964-971
Highlighted by Nature Video, Nature Synthesis, Chemistry World
◆ Yijie Xu; Ning Liu†; Ying Lin; Xingqian Mao; Hongtao Zhong; Ziqiao Chang; Mikhail N. Shneider; Yiguang Ju; Enhancements of electric field and afterglow of non-equilibrium plasma by Pb(ZrxTi1−x)O3 ferroelectric electrode, Nature Communications, 2024, 15: 3092
◆ Ning Liu; Xingqian Mao†; Christopher Kondratowicz; Timothy Y. Chen; Bowen Mei; Ziyu Wang; Yijie Xu; Hongtao Zhong; Zhiyu Shi; Anatoli Morozov; Arthur Dogariu; Yiguang Ju; Unraveling Nonequilibrium Generation of Atomic Nitrogen and Hydrogen in Plasma-Aided Ammonia Synthesis, ACS Energy Letters, 2024, 9: 2031-2036
◆ Ning Liu†; Hongtao Zhong; Timothy Chen; Ying Lin; Ziyu Wang; Yiguang Ju; Sensitive and single-shot OH and temperature measurements by femtosecond cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy, Optics Letters, 2022, 47(13): 3171-3174
◆ Ning Liu; Ke Zhou; Lin Ma†; 3D tomography integrating view registration and its application in highly turbulent flames, Combustion and Flame, 2020, 221: 429-440
◆ Ning Liu; Lin Ma†; Hybrid diagnostic for optimizing domain size and resolution of 3D measurements, Optics Letters, 2018, 43 (16), 3842-3845
◆ Ning Liu†; Chen, Timothy Y.; Zhong, Hongtao; Lin, Ying; Wang, Ziyu; Yiguang Ju; Femtosecond ultraviolet laser absorption spectroscopy for simultaneous measurements of temperature and OH concentration, Applied Physics Letters, 2022, 120 (20), 201103
◆ Ning Liu#, Bowen Mei#, Xingqian Mao†, Ziyu Wang, Zijian Sun, Yijie Xu, Zhiyu Shi, Yiguang Ju;Kinetics of low temperature plasma assisted NH3/H2 oxidation in a nanosecond-pulsed discharge, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2024, 40(1-4), 105353.
◆ Ning Liu; Lin Ma†; Regularized tomographic PIV for incompressible flows based on conservation of mass, Applied Optics, 2020, 59(6), 1667-1677

◆ Young Editor of The Innovation and Ultrafast Science, etc.
◆ Local organizing committee member of the 16th International Combustion and Energy Utilization Conference
◆ Session chair of combustion diagnostics in the US National Combustion Meeting
◆ Member, The Combustion Institute, OPTICA, and ACS
◆ Reviewer for multiple journals, e.g., Optics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Optics, Combustion and Flame, ACS Nano, and AIAA Journal, etc.

John Bell McGaughy Graduate Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2019
Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Virginia, 2019
Pratt Fellowship (twice), Virginia Tech, 2015, 2016