刘晓艳，女，研究员，博士生导师。2003年毕业于大连理工大学，获工学学士学位；2009年毕业于中国科学院大连化学物理研究所，获得工业催化专业博士学位。毕业后赴台湾大学进行博士后研究工作。于2012年通过人才引进入职中国科学院大连化学物理研究所工作至今，2015年晋升为研究员。2018-2019年赴美访学（布鲁克海文国家实验室）。研究方向：（1）高分散贵金属催化剂的设计制备；（2）X射线吸收光谱技术在催化中的应用研究；（3）基于单原子催化剂的光热协同催化小分子活化。研究成果发表于国际知名期刊，包括Nat. Catal.、Nat. Chem.、J. Am. Chem. Soc.等，总计100余篇，申请专利10余件。先后承担国家自然科学基金项目5项，以课题负责人参与国家重点研发计划和中国科学院先导项目。

1. Yuanlong Tan, Qiao Zhao, Chen Liang, Chaobin Zeng, Hongwen Guo, Fengyuan Liu, Guang Xian Pei, James Hayward, Jingyuan Ma, Han Zhao, Xiaoyan Liu*, Wei Liu*, Tao Yang*, Aiqin Wang, Graham J. Hutchings*, Tao Zhang*, In situ generation of active motifs on Ni/Al₂O₃ during partial oxidation of methane to syngas, Nat. Catal., 2026, 9, 848-857.

2. Yujing Ren, Hui-in Yan, Leilei Zhang, Xiaoyan Liu*, Lin Li, Yang-Gang Wang*, Jun Li, Tao Zhang, Aiqin Wang*, Fine-Tuning the Coordination Structure and Identifying Pt₁-O_v-Ce as the Active Site for Selective Hydrogenations over Pt₁/CeO₂ Single-Atom Catalysts, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2026, 148, 26039-26049.

3. Leilei Kang, Beien Zhu, Qingqing Gu, Xinyi Duan, Lei Ying, Guodong Qi, Jun Xu, Lin Li, Yang Su, Yanan Xing, Yanlong Wang, Gang Li, Rengui Li, Yi Gao*, Bing Yang*, Xiaoyan Liu*, Aiqin Wang, Tao Zhang, Light-driven propane dehydrogenation by a single-atom catalyst under near-ambient conditions, Nat. Chem., 2025, 17 (6), 890–896.

4. Zhuo Yan Lv, Leilei Kang*, Xiao Li Pan, Yang Su, Hua Wang, Lin Li, Xiaoyan Liu*, Aiqin Wang, Tao Zhang*, CuO Nanopatches Positioned at Lewis acidic sites of TiO2 for propylene epoxidation using molecular oxygen. ACS Catal., 2024, 14 (13), 10172-10180.

5. Leilei Kang, Xiaoyan Liu*, Aiqin Wang, Lin Li, Yujing Ren, Xiaoyu Li, Xiaoli Pan, Yuanyuan Li, Xu Zong, Hua Liu, Anatoly I. Frenkel, Tao Zhang*, Photo-thermo catalytic oxidation over TiO2-WO3 supported platinum catalyst. Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2020, 59: 12909-12916.

6. Yuan Tan, Xiaoyan Liu*, Leilei Zhang, Aiqin Wang, Lin Li, Xiaoli Pan, Shu Miao, Masatake Haruta, Haisheng Wei, Hua Wang, Fangjun Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Tao Zhang*, ZnAl-hydrotalcite-supported Au₂₅ nanoclusters as precatalysts for chemoselective hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene. Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2017, 56(10): 2709-2713.