[2] In high school, Liddell participated in a summer camp at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for emerging minority scientists, as well as worked alongside and co-authored a paper with one of the Kennedy Space Center's top female scientists.
[3] She was awarded a NASA Women in Science and Engineering Scholarship, which allowed her to study the metabolism of arsenic in poultry.
[3][4] After defending her thesis titled Non-spherical zinc sulfide colloids as building blocks for three-dimensional photonic crystals,[6] She earned her PhD in Material Science at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003.
[7] Liddell creates photonic crystals for solar cells using colloidal building blocks.
[11][12] She is a member of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.