Liu Shaw-chen

Liu Shaw-chen (; born 26 April 1944) is a Taiwanese atmospheric scientist.

Education and career Liu obtained his bachelor's degree in physics at the National Cheng Kung University in 1966. He then attended the University of Pittsburgh from 1967 to 1972, remained at Pitt through 1974 to conduct postdoctoral research. 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. The following year, he was an adjunct professor at National Central University and National Taiwan University in Taiwan, and Peking University in China. Liu founded the Academia Sinica-affiliated Research Center for Environmental Changes in 2004, and remained director of the research center until 2016, when he accepted a professorship at Jinan University in China. a member of Academia Sinica in 2012,