Prof. Robert S. H. Liu from the University of Hawaii has been invited to deliver a common course of “Advances in Modern Chemistry” for the graduate students at TIPC (Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

Prof. Robert S. H. Liu’s lecturing has lasted for one week. In his lectures, Prof. Robert S. H. Liu talked on topics of rules in photochemistry, photochemical concepts through studies of 　photoisomerization, controlling the color of organic chromophores -- from UV to NIR, the supramolecular chemistry of vision and learning experience through studies in photochemistry.

About Prof. Robert S. H. Liu

Robert S. H. Liu received his Ph. D. degree from California Institute of Technology. After four years as a research chemist at duPont, he joined the chemistry department at University of Hawaii in 1968. He remained there until summer in 2005 when he retired from full-time teaching and concluded his research program in spring of 2009. Among the honors he received were the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1970-72), the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1974-75), the NSF Creativity Award (1987) and the NIH Merit Award (1992). He was also the recipient of both the University of Hawaii Board of Regent’s Medals of Excellence in Research (1986) and in Teaching (1988). He was a 60th birthday honoree at the ACS National Meeting at Boston, 1998. Prof. Liu is a Fellow of the Inter-American Photochemical Society, 2010.

Robert S. H. Liu's research interests are mechanisms of photoisomerization, stereoselective synthesis of isomers of vitamin A and carotenoids, bioorganic and FNMR studies of retinal-binding protein analogs and designing unusual polyenes for their unique optical or other properties.