Kopin Liu (Chinese: 劉國平; born 25 January 1949) is a Taiwanese physical chemist.
He initiated his research career at the Georgia Institute of Technology, then moved to Argonne National Laboratory, where he spent over a decade until 1993.
[1] In 2000, he mentioned that working at Academia Sinica meant a large pay cut, but he was driven to educate and mentor future Taiwanese scientists while conducting research.
Liu received two consecutive five-year grants as a fellow of the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, an organization founded by Yuan T. Lee in 1994.
Liu has served as distinguished research chair professor within the department of physics at National Taiwan University since 2010.