Professor Liew Kim-meow is currently Dean of Graduate Studies, Chair Professor in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and Director of the Shenzhen Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering of City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He was elected as a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences for his significant contributions in engineering and science.
Professor Liew’s main research activities focus on the mechanical behaviour of nanostructured materials, and he has been working in this broad research field for over 20 years. He is internationally recognised for his research excellence in computational mechanics, multiscale modelling, nanocomposite and functional materials, optimisation, and fire inspired science. Professor Liew was listed among the top 2% of the world’s most highly cited scientists, according to metrics compiled by Stanford University in 2021. He has published over 800 articles in top-tier international journals including The Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences; Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering; and Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. Since 2001, he has been listed by several renowned organisations, including the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as a "Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering", and Clarivate Analytics as a 2018 "Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering", and 2019-2021 "Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field Research". His publications have been cited by other professionals over 44,000 times and his current h-index is 105.
He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the United Kingdom (UK), and the Institution of Engineers in Singapore; a Chartered Engineer registered under the Engineering Council of UK, and a Registered Professional Engineer under the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.