Zhe Liu is a professor of Computational Materials Engineering in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Melbourne. He completed a BE and ME degree in solid mechanics at Tsinghua University in China, and then a PhD degree in materials science and engineering at Northwestern University in the US. Liu's research expertise is computational materials physics. He focuses on employing/developing multi-scale computational methods to understand the structure-processing-property relationships of materials for rational design. His current research topics include alloys (metallic or semiconductor) and energy materials (conversion or storage). He has over 180 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, including over 50 papers in top journals such as Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Science Advances, PRL, JACS, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters.