Dr Fang Liu is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Chicago. Before joining the University of Reading, she served as a lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex and completed postdoctoral research at University College London, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Stanford University, and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Dr Liu’s research focuses on how the human brain processes pitch information for both linguistic and musical purposes during production and perception. Using behavioural and EEG methods, she has published over 60 journal articles. Her comparative studies include neurodevelopmental conditions such as amusia, autism, and dyslexia, as well as research on tone language speakers and musicians.

Her work has been supported by the European Research Council (grants: 678733, CAASD, 2016-2023; 838787, MAP, 2019-2022) and the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK (grant: PTA-026-27-2480, 2009-2010).