Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging. Dr. Liu’s research focuses on the development of magnetic resonance (MR) molecular imaging techniques.Dr. Liu received a B.S. in applied chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998, an M.S. in photochemistry and photobiology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001, and an M.S. in analytical chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla in 2003. After completing his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in 2008, he joined the Johns Hopkins staff as a research associate.