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Early Life
From a young age Lia knew she wanted to become a physicist. She was fascinated by the electrical and mechanical engineering work her uncle would discuss at the family table. At thirteen years of age she decided she wanted to pursue a career answering the unsolved questions in science, which was inspired in her when she first read Marie Curie's biography.

Career
Mentored by Helen T. Edwards.

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility as a Staff Scientist and in 2002 she was appointed as Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of Accelerators.

specializing in the physics and technology of superconducting RF electron linacs and energy recovery accelerators, high average power free-electron lasers, linac-ring colliders, multibunch instabilities in recirculating linacs, and radiofrequency control and modeling.

Merminga has been a chair of the American Physical Society Division of Physics of Beams and is a fellow of the American Physical Society.