DC7 - Runkang Liu

Runkang Liu graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR), France.

During his academic training, he completed several internships across both industrial and academic research environments. In 2022, he undertook a short internship at Solvay in La Rochelle, France, where he worked as an analytical technician focusing on the detection and analysis of rare-earth elements.

In 2023, he joined the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (LOCBP) at the University of Zurich for a four-month research internship under the supervision of PhD student Dorothea Kossmann and Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes. His work focused on the development of fluorescent probes for the detection of hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) in Gram-negative bacteria, allowing him to gain experience at the interface of organic chemistry, chemical biology, and molecular imaging.

Seeking to further broaden his research experience, he took a gap year in 2024 and joined Janssen Pharmaceutica (now Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine) in Beerse, Belgium, as a research intern. There, he contributed to the synthesis of biologically active molecules for preclinical research, with a particular focus on complex macrocyclic compounds.

In 2025, he completed his end-of-study research project in the Noël Research Group at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of PhD student Prakash Tiwari and Prof. Timothy Noël. His research focused on the integration of carbon monoxide (CO) into photocatalytic transformations using continuous-flow technology, combining aspects of photochemistry, flow chemistry, and sustainable synthesis.