Peilin Liao

Peilin Liao

Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering

Dr. Liao obtained her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Peking University, China, in 2006. She received her PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University in 2012. She served as postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University and Northwestern University before joining Purdue.

Dr. Liao’s research interests are in applying first-principles computational methods to study materials for renewable energy research and catalysis.