刘旭，博士，硕士生导师，招收专业物理化学、化学工程。
主要从事化学动力学模拟和量子化学计算，探究气相和液相有机化学反应，揭示其原子水平上反应机制及化学动力学过程。在J. Am. Chem. Soc.、J. Phys. Chem. Lett.、Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.、J. Phys. Chem. A等国际著名学术期刊发表多篇文章。
2010/09 — 2014/06，辽宁师范大学，化学化工学院，学士
2015/09 — 2020/07，哈尔滨工业大学，化工与化学学院，硕博连读
2020/10 — 至今，辽宁大学，化学院，讲师
科研项目：
两可亲核试剂CN-与卤代烷烃生成异构产物的直接动力学模拟研究，国家自然科学基金委员会；青年基金；30 万元；时间：2023-01-2025-12，主持。
代表性论文：
(1) Yang Wu, Xiaohui Tao, Yu Shi, Fanxiao He, Xu Liu*, Xiaoxue M*. Microstructures of hydrophobic ionic liquids via tuning water networks: Theoretical and experimental investigations. Journal of Molecular Liquids 2022, 367, 120483.
(2) Liu, Xu; Yin, Sitong; Zhao, Siwei; Yang, Li; Sun, Shaozeng; Zhang, Jiaxu. Theoretical studies on CH4 combustion in O2/H2O atmosphere. Comput. Theor. Chem. 2021, 1199, 113199.
(3) Xu Liu, Jiaxu Zhang, Li Yang, William L. Hase, How a Solvent Molecule Affects Competing Elimination and Substitution Dynamics. Insight into Mechanism Evolution with Increased Solvation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 10995–11005. (封面文章)
(4) Xu Liu, Jing Xie, Jiaxu Zhang, Li Yang, William L. Hase, Steric Effects of Solvent Molecules on SN2 Substitution Dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 1885−1892.
(5) Xu Liu, Chenyang Zhao, Li Yang, Jiaxu Zhang, Rui Sun. Indirect dynamics in SN2@N. Insight into the influence of central atom. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 22691–22699.
(6) Xu Liu, Li Yang, Jiaxu Zhang, Jianmin Sun, Competition of F/OH-Induced SN2 and Proton-Transfer Reactions with Increased Solvation. J. Phys. Chem. A 2018, 122, 9446–9453.