Department of Physics

Dr. Chen-Ting Liao is Associate Professor of Physics at Indiana University Bloomington. Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Dr. Liao received his BS degree in Space Science and MSc in Physics at National Central University in Taiwan. After working in the semiconductor and imaging industry as an engineer for two years, he came to the US to study optics. He received his PhD in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona in 2017, and he then became a postdoc researcher at JILA, a joint research institute at the University of Colorado Boulder and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). In 2021, he became a research scientist at JILA Institute and also served as Assistant Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer at STROBE, an NSF Science & Technology Center. Dr. Liao is the Finalist of two PhD thesis awards, including the 2018 WAGS-ProQuest Innovation in Technology Award and the 2019 American Physical Society (APS) Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award. He was selected as the 2022-2023 APS Career Mentoring Fellow. Also, Dr. Liao received the 2023 Air Force Young Investigator Award. Prof. Liao joined the Department of Physics at Indiana University Bloomington in late 2023.