Liu Shaw-chen

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Liu Shaw-chen (born 26 April 1944) is a Taiwanese atmospheric scientist. He earned a BS in physics from National Cheng Kung University in 1966 and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972, with a thesis on Collisionless Models of the Ion-Exosphere under advisor Thomas Michael Donahue. He remained at Pitt as a postdoctoral researcher through 1974, then moved to the Space Physics Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan as an associate research scientist.

In 1978 he joined NOAA's Aeronomy Laboratory as a supervisory research physicist and from 1980 led the Aeronomy Laboratory's Theoretical Aeronomy Program. He left NOAA in 1996 for a Georgia Power/Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar chair professorship at Georgia Tech, which he held until 1999. Liu returned to Taiwan in 1999 for a distinguished research fellowship at Academia Sinica's Institute of Earth Sciences. In 2000 he served as an adjunct professor at National Central University, National Taiwan University, and Peking University.

In 2004 he founded the Research Center for Environmental Changes at Academia Sinica and directed it until 2016, when he became a professor at Jinan University in China. Liu is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1994), a member of Academia Sinica (2012), and a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2013).