Principal Investigator
Pan Liu
Dr. Pan Liu is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Dr. Liu is interested in socioemotional processing in children and adolescents and how these processes, via interactions with other individual and environmental factors, are implicated in both typical socioemotional development and the development of anxiety and depression. She takes a multi-method approach to investigating these questions, including behavioral, EEG/ERP, MRI, and eye-tracking measures. Recent research interests include (1) examining socioemotional processing in naturalistic settings, e.g., during social media use and (2) using novel methodologies to analyze ERP data (e.g., trial-level analysis).
Before joining UAlberta, Dr. Liu was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at North Dakota State University. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Department of Psychology and the Brain & Mind Institute at Western University (with Drs. Elizabeth Hayden and Marc Joanisse) and the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center at the Pennsylvania State University (with Drs. Pamela Cole and Koraly Pérez-Edgar). She obtained her PhD degree at the School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, McGill University (advised by Dr. Marc Pell). She was the recipient of the APS Rising Star Award in 2021.
Dr. Liu is accepting graduate students in the Developmental Science area at UAlberta (see Prospective Students). She is NOT accepting honors students or research students for PSYCH 299/396/398/496/498 for the 2025-2026 academic year.