Marya Lieberman's Biography

Marya Lieberman, Professor, University of Notre Dame

Dr. Marya Lieberman is a surface and analytical chemist with over 60 peer-reviewed papers in the area of molecular electronics, DNA nanostructures, and low-tech analytical methods. She studied chemistry at MIT, obtained her doctorate in inorganic chemistry at the University of Washington, Seattle, and was a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology. Her current research focuses on paper millifluidic devices for chemical analysis in low-resource settings. These robust, inexpensive, and easy-to-use test cards help people solve problems outside the laboratory. Applications include detection of falsified and substandard medicines, monitoring nutritional supplement quality and population nutrition status, presumptive identification of illicit drugs, and evaluation of toxins in the environment.