Dr. George Liu is Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Munich and Director of CItyUX, a consultancy dedicated to educating professionals and the public about how ideas from urban design can guide the creation of attractive environments that supports human-scaled mobility. In collaboration with the European Institute of Technology and Urban Cycling Institute, George has produced and hosted the video series "City Unboxed" and "Urban Mobility Book Reviews" that aims to bridge the gap between research and practice. He specializes in high quality online learning, and has authored numerous online courses on Coursera with the University of Amsterdam and is co-founder of the platform urbanmobilitycourses.eu with Humankind. For his PhD research, George was cross-appointed at Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Amsterdam as part of the Smart Cycling Futures project.

George received his Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto in 2012. He went on to complete a Master in Environmental Studies degree at York University in 2014, specializing in cycling and urban transportation planning. Prior to starting his PhD in 2016 at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, George worked as a consultant for the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation and was a freelance transportation reporter for the urban planning publication Novae Res Urbis.