Xia Liu
Research Scientist at University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Top SchoolXia Liu is a research scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in instrumentation, spectroscopy and environmental analytical chemistry, currently based in Saskatoon. She has deep hands-on expertise operating, maintaining and troubleshooting a broad suite of analytical platforms (ICP-MS, HPLC, FTIR, Raman, LC-MS, X-ray and FTIR imaging) and has developed SOPs, methods and client-focused technical support workflows. Her background spans fundamental biophysical research—developing optical tweezers assays and single-molecule force spectroscopy on prion proteins—to applied environmental toxicology, including trace metal and selenium speciation in complex matrices. Xia combines experimental design, microwave digestion/sample prep and advanced data analysis across software packages to deliver reproducible results and collaborative projects. An uncommon strength is her cross-disciplinary fluency: she translates demanding single-molecule and imaging techniques into practical protocols for environmental and user-facility applications.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical chemistry at University of Saskatchewan
Github Skills (9)
python9
science9
data-management9
spark9
machine-learning8
data-science8
big-data7
architecture5
storage5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
acquaman/AcquamanDataServer
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:386 commits, 115 PRs, 247 pushes in 7 months
data-cachecachestoragearchitectureserver-architecture
acquaman/acquaman
Jul 2014 - Aug 2016
Acquisition and Data Management for Big Science
Contributions:901 commits, 111 PRs, 422 pushes in 2 years
data-managementpythonsciencebigdatadata-science
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