Liu Shaw-chen

Liu Shaw-chen (Chinese: 劉紹臣; born 26 April 1944) is a Taiwanese atmospheric scientist.

Liu obtained his bachelor's degree in physics at the National Cheng Kung University in 1966.

[1] He then attended the University of Pittsburgh from 1967 to 1972,[2] and after completing his doctoral dissertation, Collisionless Models of the Ion-Exosphere under the direction of Thomas Michael Donahue,[3] remained at Pitt through 1974 to conduct postdoctoral research.

[2][5] Liu returned to Taiwan in 1999 for a distinguished research fellowship at Academia Sinica's Institute of Earth Sciences.

Liu founded the Academia Sinica-affiliated Research Center for Environmental Changes in 2004, and remained director of the research center until 2016, when he accepted a professorship at Jinan University in China.