获哈尔滨工业大学高分子材料学士学位、东南大学环境工程硕士学位、南京工业大学材料学工学博士学位。

主讲“物理化学”等课程。

江苏省自然科学基金面上项目、校青年教师学术基金项目。

在国内外学术期刊上，发表相关研究领域学术论文40余篇，主编“物理化学”教材一部。近期主要论文： 1、Qiao Qiao, Jian-Lan Liu,* et al. Intercalated supramolecular compounds of kaolinite with ethanolamine and ethylene glycol: structures and dielectric properties, Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 5427-5434. 2、 Wei-Hua Ning, Jian-Lan Liu,* et al. Two segregated columnar stack platinum-bis-dithiolene molecule solids showing spin-Peierls-type transition above room temperature, Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 2997–3004. 3、Wei-Hua Ning, Jian-Lan Liu,* et al. Two magnetic phase transitions, driven by symmetry breaking and isostructural phase transitions, in a nickel-bis-dithiolene spin system, New J. Chem., 2014, 38, 179–188. 4、 Yao Chen, Jian-Lan Liu,* et al. A bis(maleonitriledithiolato)nickelate charge-transfer salt with mixed stacks exhibiting novel non-ferroelectric-type dielectric phase transition and bistability, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 9178–9181. 5、Hai-Bao Duan, Jian-Lan Liu,* et al. Modulating crystal structures and magnetic properties of 1-alkyl-4-aminopyridinium bis(maleonitrodithiolato)nickelate ionic mesogens by alkyl chain of cations, Polyhedron 2014, 69, 251–261. 6、Guang-Zhen Zou, Jian-Lan Liu,* et al. Novel dielectric relaxation behaviors driven by host-guest interactions in intercalated compounds of kaolinite with aminopyridine isomers, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 23596–23603. 7、Xu Liu, Jian-Lan Liu,* et al. A charge transfer salt consisted of bis(maleonitriledithiolato)zincate dianion and 1,1'-didecyl-4,4'-bipyridinium exhibiting uncommon nematic mesophase behavior, Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2011, 14, 1428–1431. 8、Bin Cai, Jian-Lan Liu,* et al. Observation of an unusual hysteretic magnetic transition in a heteroleptic nickel-bis-1, 2-dithiolene compound, Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2011, 14, 1971–1974. 9、Jian-Lan Liu, Qi Liu, et al. A radical ion-pair complex exhibiting strong C–H…O H-bonding interaction, moderately broaden near-IR absorbance and complicated EPR spectrum, Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2010, 13, 786–788. 10、Wen-Bo Pei, Jian-Lan Liu, et al. Ion-pair charge transfer complexes with M…H-bonding interactions: Syntheses, crystal structures, electronic spectra and DFT calculations, J. Mol. Struct., 2009, 918, 160-164.

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