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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Jinghui Liu

Jinghui is an experimental biophysicist interested in uncovering the hidden physical principles that govern living systems. Her research integrates quantitative live-cell imaging, optogenetics, molecular perturbations, and theoretical approaches to investigate how electrical, chemical, and mechanical interactions shape cellular dynamics, morphogenesis, and regeneration. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from MIT and conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institutes in Dresden, Germany. At Westlake University, she is establishing an interdisciplinary research program exploring the latent physical states of living matter and how they can be harnessed to control biological form and function.