Maijia Liao

Maijia Liao

Assistant Professor
Physics
Other Northeastern Affiliations

Expertise:

  • Advanced Imaging Methods, Cytoskeletons In Neurons, Physics Of Living Matter

About Maijia Liao

Dr. Maijia Liao is an experimental biophysicist researching the mysterious principles governing neuronal structures and functions.

Originally from Jiangsu, China, she obtained her B.S. degree from Nanjing University, with undergraduate research experience in developing photoelectrode against photo-corrosion. In 2011, she switched to the field of soft matter physics and pursued Ph.D. degree in the Department of Physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, working on grain-boundary phase transitions and electrokinetics in colloidal systems.

In 2017, she stumbled into biophysics as postdoctoral research in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry department at Yale. She studied neuronal morphologies with an interdisciplinary approach. With new imaging techniques and creative data analysis, she discovered new geometrical and topological scaling laws which governs the neuronal morphologies.

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