Research Focus:

1.         Food Safety and Epidemics in Modern China

2.         Policies and Ethical Issues in Handling the Deceased after Epidemic Outbreaks

3.         Forensic Sciences and War/Atrocity Commemoration

Education:

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Department of History, 2020

M.A., Carnegie Mellon University, Department of History, 2015

M.S., The Ohio State University, Department of Microbiology, 2013

B.S., Nankai University, College of Life Sciences, 2010

Professional Experience:

2021–present Lecturer, Research Institute of Public Health, Nankai University

2020–2021 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon university

Selected Publication：

[1] Liu Z. “Icebreaking Cooperation: Resuming the Repatriation of U.S. Servicemen’s Remains from North Korea, 1985–1990.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 28 (2021), 247-274.

[2]Liu Z. Review of David C. Chang, The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War.Journal of American-East Asian Relations 27 (2020), 199-202.

[3]Liu Z. Review of Patrick Gallagher, Traumatic Defeat: POWs, MIAs, and National Mythmaking. Essay in History 52 (2019). http://www.essaysinhistory.com/ traumatic- defeat-pows-mias-and-national-mythmaking/

[4] Zhou,R. Liu,Z.K., Zhang,Y.N., Wong, J.H., Ng,T.B.and Liu F. “Research Progress of Bioactive Proteins from the Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms.” [Review].Curr Protein Pept Sci. 20 (2019) : 196-219.

[5] Zuber PK, Artsimovitch I, NandyMazumdar M, Liu, Z., Nedialkov, Y., Schweimer, K., Rösch, P., Knauer, S. H. “The universally-conserved transcription factor RfaH is recruited to a hairpin structure of the non-template DNA strand.” Elife. 2018;7:e36349. Published 2018 May 9. doi:10.7554/eLife.36349

[6]Liu Z. “A Tentative Analysis of the Factors that Led to Truman’s Decision to Expand the Korean War.” Acta Universitatis Nankaiensis, 5 (2016): 137-145. [In Chinese]

[7]Liu Z. and Artsimovitch, I. “Mapping the Escherichia coli transcription elongation complex with Exonuclease III.”Methods Mol. Bio (2015), 1276:1-12.

[8] Jiang, Y., Wong, J. H., Fu, M., Ng, T.B., Liu, Z.K., Li, N., Qiao, W.T., Geng, Y.Q., and Liu, F. “Inhibitors from Natural Products to HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase, Protease, and Integrase.” [Review]. Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry 10 (2010): 1331-1344.