本科毕业于中山大学物理系，日本东京大学理学院物理系获硕士和博士学位。在日本物质材料研究机构工作4年后加入上海交通大学物理与天文系，现为该系长聘教授，博士生导师，教育部青年长江学者，上海市曙光学者。曾获新世纪优秀人才计划和上海市浦江人才计划支持。

主要研究工作是利用以分子束外延法（MBE）在晶体表面/界面制备新颖的低维量子体系（拓扑薄膜材料，超导薄膜等），通过扫描隧道显微镜（STM）和原位电导及抗磁测量系统等分析与表征手段，探寻新奇的量子现象，探索量子调控的有效手段和方式。近年来成功研制出多功能集成扫描隧道显微镜(STM+)的原位测量系统；实现了超晶格铟膜超导迈斯纳效应的原位测量，确定了FeSe薄膜的零电阻特性、超导相图，以及转变温度对相位刚度而非能隙的依赖性；与同事一道率先制备出高品质的拓扑绝缘体/超导体异质结，实现了拓扑绝缘体表面的拓扑超导态，确定了马约拉纳零能模及其自旋特性，这一系列的实验发现为拓扑量子计算的实现提供了一种新的途径。发表SCI论文80余篇，被引4000多次，ESI高被引论文6篇，《科学》、《自然材料》和《物理评论快报》等高端期刊论文25篇。部分成果获2019年国家自然科学二等奖（第三获奖人），入选科技导报2016年度十大科学进展。

1. Gang Yao, Ming-Chao Duan, Ningning Liu, Yanfu Wu, Dan-Dan Guan, Shiyong Wang, Hao Zheng, Yao-Yi Li, Canhua Liu* and Jin-Feng Jia*：Diamagnetic Response of Potassium-Adsorbed Multilayer FeSe Film, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 123, 257001 (2019).

2. Yanfu Wu, Ming-Chao Duan, Ningning Liu, Gang Yao, Dandan Guan, Shiyong Wang, Yao-Yi Li, Hao Zheng, Canhua Liu* and Jin-Feng Jia*:Diamagnetic response of a superconducting surface superstructure: Si(111)-√7×√3-In, Physical Review B 99, 140506(R) (1019) (Editors’ Suggestion, Featured in Physics)

3. M.-C. Duan, Z.-L. Liu, J.-F. Ge, Z.-J. Tang, G.-Y. Wang, Z.-X. Wang, D. Guan, Y.-Y. Li, D. Qian, C. Liu*, and J. –F. Jia*: Development of in situ two-coil mutual inductance technique in a multifunctional scanning tunneling microscope, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 88, 073902 (2017)

4. Jian-Feng Ge, Zhi-Long Liu, Canhua Liu*, Chun-Lei Gao, Dong Qian, Qi-Kun Xue*, Ying Liu, Jin-Feng Jia*: Superconductivity above 100 K in single-layer FeSe films on doped SrTiO3(001), Nat. Mat. 14, 285 (2015).

5. Jian-Feng Ge, Zhi-Long Liu, Chun-Lei Gao, Dong Qian, Canhua Liu* and Jin-Feng Jia*: Development of micro-four-point probe in a scanning tunneling microscope for in situ electrical transport measurement,Review of Scientific Instruments 86, 053903 (2015).

6. Jin-Peng Xu, Mei-Xiao Wang, Zhi Long Liu, Jian-Feng Ge, Xiaojun Yang, Canhua Liu*, Zhu An Xu, Dandan Guan, Chun Lei Gao, Dong Qian, Ying Liu, Qiang-Hua Wang, Fu-Chun Zhang, Qi-Kun Xue, and Jin-Feng Jia*: Experimental detection of a Majorana mode in the core of a magnetic vortex inside a topological-insulator-superconductor Bi2Te3/NbSe2 heterostructure, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 017001 (2015)

7. Jin-Peng Xu^#, Canhua Liu^#, Mei-Xiao Wang, Jianfeng Ge, Zhi-Long Liu, Xiaojun Yang, Yan Chen, Ying Liu, Zhu-An Xu, Chun-Lei Gao, Dong Qian, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Jin-Feng Jia*: Artificial Topological Superconductor by the Proximity Effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 217001 (2014).

8. Zhi-Long Liu, Mei-Xiao Wang, Jin-Peng Xu, Jian-Feng Ge, Guy Le Lay, Patrick Vogt, Dong Qian, Chun-Lei Gao, Canhua Liu* and Jin-Feng Jia*: Various atomic structures of monolayer silicene fabricated on Ag(111), New J. Phys. 16, 075006 (2014).

9. Mei-Xiao Wang^#, Canhua Liu^#, Jin-Peng Xu, Fang Yang, Lin Miao, Meng-Yu Yao, C. L. Gao, Chenyi Shen, Xucun Ma, X. Chen, Zhu-An Xu, Ying Liu, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Dong Qian, Jin-Feng Jia, Qi-Kun Xue: The Coexistence of Superconductivity and Topological Order in the Bi2Se3 Thin Films, Science 336, 52 (2012).

10. C. Liu*, T. Uchihashi, and T. Nakayama: Self-alignment of Co adatoms on In atomic wires by quasi-one-dimensional electron gas mediated interactions, Physical Review Letter, 101, 146104 (2008).

11. C. Liu, T. Inaoka, S. Yaginuma, T. Nakayama, M. Aono, and T. Nagao: Excitation of one-dimensional plasmons in Si and Au-Si complex atom wires Nanotechnology, 19, 355204 (2008).

12. C. Liu, T. Inaoka, S. Yaginuma, T. Nakayama, M. Aono, and T. Nagao: Disappearance of the quasi-dimensional plasmon at the metal-insulator phase transition of indium atomic wires, Physical Review B, 77, 205415 (2008).

13. I. Matsuda*, C. Liu, T. Hirahara, M. Ueno, T. Tanikawa, T. Kanagawa, R. Hobara, S. Hasegawa, and K. Kobayashi: Localization of two-dimensional electrons in a metallic monolayer studied by micro-four-point probe method, Physical Review Letter, 99, 146805 (2007).

14. C. Liu*, I. Matsuda, M. D'angelo, S. Hasegawa, J. Okabayashi, S. Toyoda, and M. Oshima: Self-assembly of two-dimensional nanoclusters: from surface molecules to surface superstructure, Physical Review B, 74, 235420 (2006)

15. C. Liu*, I. Matsuda, Hobara Rei, and S. Hasegawa: Adatoms-induced band splitting of the quasi-two-dimensional electron gas Physical Review Letter, 96, 036803 (2006).

16. C. Liu*, S. Yamazaki, R. Hobara, I. Matsuda, and S. Hasegawa: Two-Dimensional Liquid-Solid Phase Transition Observed on Atomic Scale, Physical Review B 71, 041310(R) (2005).