Andrea Liu

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Andrea Liu
Born(1962-10-07)October 7, 1962
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
AwardsNational Academy of Sciences (2017)

Simons Investigator
in Theoretical Physics (2015)
Simons Fellow
(2013)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)

American Physical Society (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Soft condensed matter
Institutions
Thesis Criticality in bulk and semi-infinite systems  (1989)
Doctoral advisorMichael Fisher

Andrea Jo-Wei Liu is the Hepburn Professor of Physics at the

Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics,[2] fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),[3][4] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).[5]

Academic career

Liu graduated from the

Exxon and the University of California, Santa Barbara, she joined the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993, and moved to the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She became the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor in the Natural Sciences in 2009,[6] before becoming the Hepburn Professor in 2011.[7]

Liu was the General Councilor of the American Physical Society (2017-2020). She served on the steering committees for a number of scientific organizations including the APS Board of Directors, the

National Research Council
(NRC) Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee.

Research contributions

Liu is recognized for distinguished contributions in theoretical physics, particularly for demonstrating that slow relaxation in soft materials can be viewed within a common framework called jamming."[3] She was one of the first scientists to uncover the structural and dynamical features of the jamming transition, a critical phase transition that marks the onset of rigidity in disordered packings.[8] She has also resolved a longstanding question of how disordered solids flow by identifying "flow defects", or regions that are vulnerable to local rearrangement, analogous to dislocations in crystals.

According to Google Scholar, Liu's publications have received over 17,000 citations and her h-index is 63.[9]

Awards and honors

Liu has received a significant number of awards and honors which include:

Selected publications

  • Landes, F. P., Biroli G., Dauchot O., Liu, A. J., Reichman, D. R. Attractive versus truncated repulsive supercooled liquids: The dynamics is encoded in the pair correlation function. Physical Review E 101, 010602 (2020). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.101.010602
  • Sharp, T.A., Thomas S. L., Cubuk, E. D., Schoenholz, S. S., Srolovitz, D. J., Liu. A. J. Machine learning determination of atomic dynamics at grain boundaries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115(43), 10943 (2018). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1807176115
  • Harris, Tajie H.; Banigan, Edward J.; Christian, David A.; Konradt, Christoph; Tait Wojno, Elia D.; Norose, Kazumi; Wilson, Emma H.; John, Beena; Weninger, Wolfgang; Luster, Andrew D.; Liu, Andrea J.; Hunter, Christopher A. (May 2012), "Generalized Lévy walks and the role of chemokines in migration of effector CD8+ T cells", Letters,
    PMID 22722867
    .
  • O'Hern, Corey S.; Silbert, Leonardo E.; Liu, Andrea J.; .
  • Liu, Andrea J.; .
  • Liu, Andrea J.; .

References

  1. ^ a b Faculty profile, University of Pennsylvania, retrieved 2016-05-14.
  2. ^ "Andrea Liu". Simons Foundation. 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
  3. ^ a b Andrea Liu elected to AAAS, Penn Physics & Astronomy, retrieved 2016-05-17.
  4. ^ "Andrea J. Liu | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
  5. ^ "Andrea Liu". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
  6. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2016-05-17.
  7. ^ Andrea J. Liu named Hepburn Professor of Physics, Penn Arts & Sciences, July 12, 2011, retrieved 2016-05-17.
  8. S2CID 33422329
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  9. ^ "Andrea J. Liu". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-11-18.