Juewen Liu received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science & Technology of China in 2000 and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. He joined the University of Waterloo in 2009 and is currently a professor of chemistry. He is interested in aptamers and biosensors. He received a Fred Beamish Award (2014) and a McBryde Medal (2018) from the Canadian Society for Chemistry for his contribution in bioanalytical chemistry. He serves as a Section Editor for Biosensors & Bioelectronics, and a Contributing Editor for TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. He has published over 400 papers, receiving over 40,000 citations with an H-index of 98, and is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2022.