Xiuyun Liu is a Distinguished Professor at Tianjin University, Dean of the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. She also serves as Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Medical Materials and Devices and of the Haihe Laboratory of Brain–Computer Interaction and Human–Machine Integration, and as Executive Director of the MOE Innovation Center for Fundamental Medical Research in Neurocritical Care. She is the Principal Investigator of a National Key Research and Development Program project and a recipient of national-level talent recognitions, including the Tianjin Distinguished Young Scholar honor.

Professor Liu received her PhD in Clinical Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University. She joined Tianjin University in 2021.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a member of the SOCCA Academic Committee, and holds leadership roles in the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, the Chinese Medical Rescue Association, and the Tianjin Society of Perioperative Medicine. She serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent Medicine and Co-Editor of Current Molecular Pharmacology.

Her honors include the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific, the inaugural National New Era Youth Pioneer Award, the First Prize of the Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award as first principal contributor, and the Tianjin March 8 Red-Banner Holder.