Professor Fawang Liu

Fawang Liu is a Professor in the Applied and computational mathematics discipline at Queensland University of Technology. He has 35 years of research, professional and teaching experience. He received his MSc from Fuzhou University, China in 1982 and his PhD from Trinity College, Ireland in 1991, respectively. Since graduation, he has worked   in computational and applied mathematics at Fuzhou University (Youngest lecturer at Fuzhou University in China was promoted as Associate Professor on 1988), Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin,   Xiamen University (First-class Professor),   University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology (from 17 September, 1991). Professor Liu has made important contributions to the fields including numerical methods and theoretical analysis of the fractional differential equations, modelling contaminant flow in soils and aquifers, modelling anomalous transport, computational modelling of the human heart, implement adaptive image enhancement using fractional differential algorithms, a unifying framework for distributed-order fractional models, propagation of electrical signals in the white matter of the human brain, fractional dynamical models for MRI to probe tissue microstructure,  particle’s motion in crowded environments, parameter estimation for fractional dynamical models arising from biological systems, fractional viscoelastic Non-Newtonian fluids, computational finance, semiconductor device equations, microwave heating problems, gas-solid reactions, singular perturbation problem and saltwater intrusion into aquifer systems. Professor Liu is an international recognised expert and a leading researcher in the field of numerical methods and theoretical analysis for fractional dynamical systems.  He has published over 300 papers in these fields. In 2012, Professor Liu won the prestigious Mittag-Leffler Award for his outstanding contributions to the field of Fractional Derivatives and their Applications. He has also received the Vice Chancellor Performance Award at Queensland University of Technology in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He has established strong collaborative links with a number of key researchers at prestigious universities in China working in the field of fractional calculus. He has h-index 51 and over 10000 Google Scholar citations. He has supervised more than 20 PhD students and 30 visiting fellows on fractional dynamical models and applications.  Professor Liu has been named in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Thomson Reuters lists of Highly Cited Researchers.