Qun Liu obtained his Ph.D. in biophysics from Cornell University and did his postdoc research at Cornell Synchrotron Light Source (CHESS). After his postdoc training, he became a scientist at the New York Structural Biology Center; there he worked at the New York Consortium on Membrane Protein Structure as well as the X4 beamlines at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 2015 Qun Liu joined the Biology Department of the Brookhaven National Laboratory as a principal investigator with a joint appointment from NSLS-II. Qun Liu is an Adjunct Professor and a faculty member of the Biochemistry and Structural Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology Programs at Stony Brook University.