Shi-Xia Liu

Centre for Molecular Quantum Systems at the University of Bern, Switzerland

Shi-Xia Liu was born in China on 26^th of March 1970. She received her PhD in Chemistry from Lanzhou University (China) in 1998. As an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, she was at the University of Siegen (Germany) from 1999 to 2000. She then joined the group of Prof. Silvio Decurtins at the University of Bern (Switzerland) as a senior researcher (2000-2015). From 2016 to 2020, she was a lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Bern. She was appointed as a visiting Professor at Angers University, France in 2014 and at Trinity College Dublin, Irland in 2016. In October 2020, she received her Venia Legendi after successful habilitation. Since October 2024, she has become head of the W. Inäbnit Laboratory for Molecular Quantum Materials, Bern University and Werner Siemens Research Centre for Molecular Quantum Systems. Her research mainly focusses on the development of new organic functional materials for (opto)electronic applications.