Zihan Liu

Experience

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  Canvest Environmental Protection Group Co Ltd

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Environmental Technician

  • Learned to operate the wastewater treatment system and performed quality control with the effluent water.• Familiarized with the operations and maintenance of various water treatment and laboratory equipment.

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  UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program

  Jan 2019 - Jul 2020

  • Received training from my mentor on operating analytical instruments like Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, keeping track of experiment details, and maintaining laboratory equipment.• Analyzed the impact of burning wheat straw on air qualities based on existing literature and simulation models. • Assisted my mentor in a government remediation project of water and soil at a petroleum-contaminated site in China.• Trained in the laboratory, with the responsibility of analyzing contaminated samples, designing experiments, and testing for more efficient biological remediation approaches.

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    Jan 2020 - Jul 2020

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
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  UC Berkeley College of Engineering

  Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

  Teaching Assistant

  • Assisted my instructor of record in teaching the course CE 111 (Environmental Engineering) at UC Berkeley.• Led weekly 1-hour discussion sections to help students review concepts and solve practice problems.• Hosted four hours of office hours every week to provide students with 1 to 1 help.

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  自由职业

  Jun 2022 - May 2023

  Independent Researcher

  • Using data approaches, I investigated the effects of climate change on the Californian water cycle through case studies of drought, mountain snowpack change, and coastal systems' responses to sea-level rise.• Accumulated experience in data analysis, surface water hydrology, and Python coding.

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  West Contra Costa Unified School District

  Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

  Teaching Assistant

  • Served as a teaching assistant in K-12 classrooms and provided disabled students with individual help.

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  Metware Biotechnology Inc

  Dec 2023 - now

  Laboratory Technician

  • Categorizing, storing, extracting, and analyzing agricultural, medical, and environmental samples.• Performing sample extraction, compound detection, data analysis, and data QC while keeping meticulous experimental records.• Practicing chemical & biological analysis methods such as liquid chromatography, QQQ mass spectrometry, and QTOF mass spectrometry. Maintaining high-value lab equipment.• Diagnosing problems occurred during pilot studies and daily lab work, designing experiments to test hypotheses, and proposing solutions for process optimizations. Show less