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Haitao Liu and Xinyu Liu will join the Chemistry Department as Assistant Professors

June 23, 2010 - 12:31pm

Haitao Liu received his Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of California at Berkeley working in the group of Paul Alivisatos and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University with Colin Nuckolls and Louis Brus.  Research in the Liu group is focused on the physical and synthetic chemistries of nanomaterials. He is interested in a wide range of organic and inorganic materials, including but not limited to DNA, graphene, carbon nanotubes, and colloidal nanocrystals. Xinyu Liu received his PhD with Professor Seeberger at ETH in 2007 where he received the ETH Medal for outstanding PhD thesis and was an Ernst Schering Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the Walsh laboratory at Harvard Medical School He did undergraduate study at Kyoto University and worked with Professor Hiyama.  His research program resides at the interface of chemistry, biology, medicine and material and concerns the study of broadly defined template–independent biological processes in living systems. His current research focus is primarily in the context of the biogenesis and signal transduction event related to polysaccharide, polypeptide and polyprenylated small molecule natural product.