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Aimin Liu is Professor of Chemistry and Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he has served since January 2016. He previously held the position of Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University from 2015 to 2016, Professor from 2012 to 2015, and Associate Professor from 2008 to 2012. Earlier in his career, Liu was Associate Professor and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center from 2008 and 2002 to 2008, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Stockholm University in 2000 and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China. His postdoctoral training included work at the University of Minnesota's Center for Metals in Biocatalysis from 2000 to 2002. Liu's research in the Metalloprotein Research Laboratory centers on amino acid metabolism involving tryptophan, cysteine, and tyrosine; protein-derived cofactors from residue crosslinks; mechanistic enzymology; redox biochemistry; free radical mechanisms in chemical biology; and metalloprotein-mediated redox sensing and signaling. He employs techniques such as biophysical EPR and ENDOR spectroscopies, X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, stopped-flow kinetics, LC-MS, NMR, and genetic code expansion.