Hui (Cathy) Liu

Hui (Cathy) Liu is a professor of sociology and director of the Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC) at Purdue University. She also serves as a co-director of the Center for Aging Families (CAF), a multi-institutional center funded through the National Institute on Aging (NIA) P30 program. Dr. Liu’s research is guided by the aging and life course perspective and focuses on the social determinants of population health. Specifically, her work seeks to develop, test, and advance scientific knowledge of marriage and family processes that both influence and are influenced by health and well-being, particularly in later life. Her contributions to the field have been recognized through several prestigious national honors, including a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Career Award (Mentored Research Scientist Development Award). She is an elected fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and was a Butler-Williams Scholar of the National Institute on Aging in 2014.