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Liyuan Liang, a celebrated chemist and emerging science administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named director of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory in Washington state. The lab is a research user facility at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Liang has performed multiple roles at ORNL, including a tenure as director of the lab’s Office of Institutional Planning. She also headed a scientific team that tackled many of the perplexing issues about mercury in the environment — including how mercury is transformed into methylmercury, its most toxic form.
Allison Campbell, an associate director at Pacific Northwest, said in a statement:
“Dr. Liang brings outstanding experience providing strategic vision and planning to advance high-impact cross-disciplinary research. Her experience leading projects and teams of scientists focused on research supporting the Department of Energy and other government sponsors is a perfect fit for EMSL and PNNL.”
Liang will assume her new position later this summer.
In the near term, she will be presenting an invited talk on mercury at the Goldschmidt International Conference in Japan.
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