Rate My Professor Alan Liu

Dr. Alan Liu is a tenured Professor of Engineering Physics in the Physical Sciences Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s College of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach, Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research specializes in optical remote sensing of the middle and upper atmosphere using lidar technology, atmospheric dynamics, and the physics and chemistry of the middle and upper atmosphere. Dr. Liu manages the Andes Lidar Observatory at Cerro Pachón, Chile, which is equipped with a sodium resonance/fluorescence lidar, airglow imagers, and a meteor radar to measure atmospheric winds, temperatures, and wave signatures. He has served as principal investigator on multiple National Science Foundation grants, including a Major Research Instrumentation project for deploying an advanced meteor radar at the observatory and an Aeronomy project supporting sodium lidar operations. Dr. Liu also holds an adjunct professor position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has advised several master’s and Ph.D. students and is a senior member of the IEEE, as well as a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. In 2014, he received the Abas Sivjee Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award.