- Associate Professor at Biomedical Engineering and at Life Sciences (by courtesy), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2025-present
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, CUHK, 2018-2024
- Postdoc, Stanford University, 2016-2018
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, Stanford University, 2010-2016
- B.S. in Chemistry, Renmin University of China, 2006-2010
Liting Duan received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Renmin University of China (People’s University of China) in 2010, where she worked on the fabrication and application of micro/nano-patterned structures using hot micro-contact printing. She moved from materials engineering to biochemistry/biophysics for her doctoral studies at Stanford University (Ph.D. in Chemistry 2016) with Professor Bianxiao Cui. Her thesis focused on the development of optogenetic strategies to control intracellular activities. During postdoctoral research, she further studied and engineered the interactions of photosensory proteins for an optimized optogenetic toolkit with Prof. Bianxiao Cui in Chemistry and Prof. Michael Lin in Bioengineering and Neurobiology at Stanford. In July 2018, she joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor. In Jan 2025, she was promoted to Associate Professor. She received the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (优青) in 2024 and the RGC Research Fellowship Scheme in 2026.