RESEARCH INTERESTS

Algebraic Geometry. My research has been focused on algebraic surfaces; more recently, I have also done some work on the birational geometry of higher dimensional variety.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Bachelor Degree (Pure Mathematics), School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, China (2004)

• Ph.D Degree (Pure Mathematics), Department of Mathematics, Universität Bayreuth, Germany (2010)

• Ph.D Degree (Pure Mathematics), School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, China (2011)

WORKING EXPERIENCE

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Universität Mainz, Germany (2011.3-2011.10)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Universität Bielefeld, Germany (2011.10-2013.9)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany (2013.10-2015.3)

• Assistant Professor, Peking University, China (2015.4-2015.12)

• Associate Professor, Xiamen University, China (2016.1-2016.7)

• Professor, Xiamen University, China (since 2016.8)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE / GRANTS

• Bielefeld Nachwuchsfonds (travelling grant), 2012.7-2013.1

• NSFC grant (No. 11501012), “Effective bounds of stable surfaces”, 2016.1-2018.12

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATION

• On accumulation points of volumes of log surfaces,  arXiv:1803.09582, Valery Alexeev and Wenfei Liu, 2018, to appear in Izvestiya Mathematics, memorial volume for V. A. Iskovskikh's 80th anniversary

• Open surfaces of small volume, Valery Alexeev and Wenfei Liu, Algebraic Geometry 6 (3) (2019) 312-327.

• Geography of Gorenstein stable log surfaces, Wenfei Liu and Sönke Rollenske, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 368 (2016), no.4, 2563-2588. 

• Surfaces of general type with q = 2 are rigidified, Commun. Contemp. Math. 20 (2018), no. 7, 1750084, 12 pp.

• Pluricanonical maps of stable log surfaces, Wenfei Liu and Sönke Rollenske, Adv. Math. 258 (2014), 69-126. 

• The moduli space of even surfaces of general type with K² = 8, p_g = 4, q = 0, Fabrizio Catanese, Wenfei Liu and Roberto Pignatelli, J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 101 (2014), no. 6, 925-948. 

• Automorphisms of surfaces of general type with q = 1 acting trivially in cohomology, preprint, arXiv:1308.3952, 2013, Jin-Xing Cai and Wenfei Liu, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) 18 (2018), no. 4, 1311-1348.

• Automorphisms of surfaces of general type with q ≥ 2 acting trivially in cohomology, Jin-Xing Cai, Wenfei Liu and Lei Zhang, Compos. Math. 149 (2013), no. 10, 1667-1684. 

• Stable degenerations of surfaces isogenous to a product II, Wenfei Liu, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 364 (2012), no.5 2411-2427.