Jia Liu successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and was officially awarded the doctoral degree on September 1, 2025, becoming the first Ph.D. graduate of Guanglu Lab. During her doctoral work, she focused on noncovalent assembly systems based on cucurbiturils, including chiral folded assemblies and pi-pi stacked binary assemblies. The group thanks her for setting an example in research and daily lab life and for her long-standing commitment and warm companionship.

In her earlier self-description, Jia described herself as passionate, creative, optimistic and easy-going.