Dr. Yina Liu

Biography

Yina Liu is an organic biogeochemist with a particular interest in the cycling of organic compounds—both natural and anthropogenic—and how these cycles affect biological and ecological processes, and vice versa. She studies interconnected processes that are important drivers of organic carbon and contaminant cycling at regional and global scales. Her research group employs untargeted and targeted analyses guided by data science to illuminate various aspects of organic biogeochemistry. Liu’s expertise includes investigating how halogenation of natural organic matter influences the carbon cycle and ozone chemistry, and how microbes transform oil components in seawater during oil spills. Her group focuses on discovering and classifying organic compounds to understand environmental samples better, utilizing innovative computational algorithms to analyze complex datasets generated from ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry. Currently, she is developing cheminformatics pipelines to fingerprint and classify environmental tarballs.

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