Fields Physics Field Physics | Doctoral advisor Michael Fisher Academic advisor Michael Fisher | |
Thesis Criticality in bulk and semi-infinite systems (1989) Notable awards National Academy of Sciences Notable award National Academy of Sciences Alma maters University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University Institutions University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Los Angeles | ||
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Andrea J. Liu is the Hepburn Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research uses both mathematical analysis and computer simulations to study condensed matter physics and biophysics. She is particularly known for her study of jamming, a phenomenon in which materials become rigid with increasing density.
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Academic career
Liu graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984, and earned a Ph.D. in 1989 from Cornell University under the supervision of Michael Fisher. After postdoctoral studies at 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, before becoming the Hepburn Professor in 2011.
Awards and honors
In 2012, Liu became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for distinguished contributions in theoretical physics, particularly for demonstrating that slow relaxation in many different systems can be viewed within a common framework called jamming." In 2016 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.