Hongwan Liu, PhD

Junior Faculty Fellow (2025)
Assistant Professor, Physics, CAS
- Education
- Ph.D., Physics, MIT
- Office
- PRB Room 573
- hongwan@bu.edu
Hongwan Liu is an assistant professor of physics and a member of the BU Cosmology Group in the College of Arts & Sciences at BU. Liu’s research lies at the intersection of cosmology, astroparticle physics and high-energy physics. He works to uncover what lies beyond our currently incomplete understanding of both particle physics and cosmology.
He particularly enjoys thinking about how physics at the smallest scales—where new, microscopic particles may interact with each other through yet undiscovered forces—can be discovered using the physics at the largest scales, which determine the structure and evolution of our Universe. His work combines aspects of both theoretical and computational physics, all applied to finding ways of uncovering new physics in current and future experimental data.
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