Professor Ru-Shi Liu received his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Soochow University (Taiwan) in 1981. He got his Master's Degree in nuclear science from the National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) in 1983. He obtained two Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from National Tsing Hua University in 1990 and from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He joined Materials Research Laboratories at Industrial Technology Research Institute as an Associate Researcher, Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist and Research Manager from 1983 to 1995. Then he became an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the National Taiwan University from 1995 to 1999. Then he promoted as a Professor in 1999. In July 2016, he became the Distinguished Professor.

He got the Excellent Young Person Prize in 1989, Excellent Inventor Award (Argentine Medal) in 1995 and Excellent Young Chemist Award in 1998. He got the 9th Y. Z. Hsu scientific paper award due to the excellent energy-saving research in 2011. He received the Ministry of Science and Technology awards for distinguished research in 2013 and 2018. In 2015, he received the distinguished award for Novel and Synthesis by IUPAC & NMS. In 2017, he got the Chung-Shang Academic paper award. He got “Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate Analytics in 2018 and 2019. He got Hou Chin-Tui Award in 2018 due to the excellent research on basic science. He got the 17th Y. Z. Hsu Chair Professor award for the contribution to the excellent research on “Green Science & Technology” in 2019. He then got the 26th TECO award for the contribution to make the combination of the academic and practical application of materials chemistry in 2019.