Juewen Liu PhD

Dr. Juewen Liu, Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of Waterloo. Liu is a leader in the field of bionanotechnology. His lab employs DNA, liposomes, hydrogels, and various inorganic nanoparticles as building blocks to construct functional nanomaterials for analytical and biomedical applications. He is also interested in the biotechnology of combinatorial DNA aptamer selection.

Prior to his current appointment at the University of Waterloo, he worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Micro-Engineered Materials at the University of New Mexico, and the Advanced Materials Laboratory at Sandia National Labs, where he developed a novel drug delivery vehicle based on mesoporous silica nanoparticle supported phospholipid bilayers. He is currently interested in a selection of functional DNA molecules for catalysis and molecular recognition, enzyme mimics using nanomaterials (enzymes), adsorption of DNA and lipids on various nanoscale surfaces, and biosensor development.