Dr.LIU Fan is a professor at Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He was rewarded by a prestige Chinese talent program “1000 Talents Program for Young Scholars" in 2015. Dr. LIU received his bachelor degree in clinical medicine from Shandong Medical University in China. He obtained his MSc, DSc, and PhD degrees in genetic epidemiology from Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands (promotor: Prof. Dr. Cornelia van Duijn). In 2009, Dr. LIU pursued his postdoctoral research at the Department of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (department head: Prof. Dr. Manfred Kayser). Dr. LIU was promoted to assistant professor with tenure in Dec-2012. Over years, Dr. LIU continues to make excellent scientific achievements including multiple key authorship papers in top ranked scientific journals such as Am J Hum Genet, Current Biology, PLoS Genetics, Human Genetics, and overall over 40 papers published on internationally peer reviewed SCI journals where he served as a key author or co-author. He led an entire research line in identifying genes and developing predictive DNA markers for human appearance traits; his work laid the foundation for two DNA test systems, one for predicting eye color and another for predicting eye and hair color in parallel, which are already in use for forensic and anthropological applications internationally. His excellent research profile earned him the Erasmus University Fellowship award. LIU’s background in clinical medicine, epidemiology, genomics, and forensics has provided him a unique opportunity to decipher the cryptic links between genomic variation and human complex phenotypes.

Clinical medicine, Epidemiology, Genomics,Forensics