PhD from the University of Leeds, UK

Former Chair Professor at the University of Kent, UK

Zhuhai Scholar Distinguished Professor of Guangdong Province

Professor Steve Wenbin LIU, Chair Professor, Dean of DBM, earned his PhD degree from the University of Leeds. He is also a Professor of the Beijing Normal University, the Overseas Professor in Evaluation Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Overseas Assessor for management and mathematics, CAS.

Professor LIU began his academic career at the Central South University, followed by the Imperial College, and the University of Kent, where he served as the Chair Professor and the Head of Management Science Sector of Kent Business School, as well as the Director of Joint Research Centre for Anglo-Chinese Business and Management.

Professor LIU’s main research areas are Management and Computational Mathematics, specifically in productivity and performance analysis, scientometrics and research evaluation, numerical partial differential equations, and computational optimal control. He has taken up the editorship of several high quality international journals. Over 200 of his research papers have been published, mostly in SCI / SSCI journals.