CV
last update: 07.03.2024
Education
2020 - 2024: Ph.D. in Physics, Laboratory of Statistical Biophysics (LBS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
2018 - 2020: M.Sc. in Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 - 2018: B.Sc. in Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
- With a joint degree, B.Sc. in Physics with Theoretical Physic (First Class Honours), from the University of Manchester
Research & Projects
- Jan. 2023 - June 2023: Thermodynamic Constraints on Symmetry Breaking in Biochemical Systems
- JSPS Fellow (Strategic Program)
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Supervisors: Prof. Simone Pigolotti
- July 2022 - Sept. 2022: Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems
- Visiting research student
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Supervisors: Prof. Simone Pigolotti
- Sept. 2020 - Now: Thermodynamics Costs of Spatiotemporal Symmetry Breaking
- PhD project at LBS, EPFL
- Supervisors: Prof. Paolo De Los Rios and Dr. Daniel M. Busiello
- Feb. 2019 - July 2020: Thermodynamics of the Origins of Life
- Semester projects and master project at Lab of Statistical Biophysics (LBS), EPFL
- Supervisors: Prof. Paolo De Los Rios and Dr. Daniel M. Busiello
- Master Thesis: Non-equilibrium Chemical Reactions under Non-Isothermal Condition
- Feb. 2018 - June 2018: Modelling of Bacterial Biofilms
- B.Sc. Dissertation at the University of Manchester
- May 2016 - May 2017: Complex Network Approach for the High Efficiency Light-Harvesting System
- Undergraduate Research Project at Beijing Normal University. Supervisor: Prof. Qing Ai
- Funding: National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates (No.201610027101)
Publications
Shiling Liang, Paolo De Los Rios, and Daniel Maria Busiello. “Universal thermodynamic bounds on symmetry breaking in biochemical systems”, arXiv, 2212,12074 (2022) (Accepted for publication in PRL)
Shiling Liang, Yu-Han Ma, Daniel Maria Busiello, and Paolo De Los Rios. “A Minimal Model for Carnot Efficiency at Maximum Power”, arXiv, 2312.02323 (2023)
Shiling Liang and Simone Pigolotti. “Thermodynamic bounds on time-reversal asymmetry”. Phys. Rev. E (Letter) 108, L062101 (2023).
Shiling Liang, Daniel Maria Busiello, and Paolo De Los Rios. “Emergent thermophoretic behavior in chemical reaction systems.” New Journal of Physics, 24 123006 (2022).
Shiling Liang, Paolo De Los Rios, and Daniel Maria Busiello. “Dissipation-Driven Selection under Finite Diffusion: Hints from Equilibrium and Separation of Time Scales.” Entropy 23, no. 8 (2021): 1068.
Daniel Maria Busiello, Shiling Liang, Francesco Piazza, and Paolo De Los Rios. “Dissipation-driven selection of states in non-equilibrium chemical networks.” Communications Chemistry 4, no. 1 (2021): 1-7.
Avinash Vicholous Dass, Thomas Georgelin, Frances Westall, Frédéric Foucher, Paolo De Los Rios, Daniel Maria Busiello, Shiling Liang, and Francesco Piazza. “Equilibrium and non-equilibrium furanose selection in the ribose isomerisation network.” Nature communications 12, no. 1 (2021): 1-10.
Awards, Grants & Honours
- 2024: APS DBIO travel award (declined due to visa issue)
- 2023: JSPS Fellowship (Strategic) for research in Japan (220,000 JPY per month for 5 months)
- 2022: Best Short Talk Award, 7th Beijing Soft Matter Workshop
- 2016 - 2017: National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates (20,000 CNY research allowance)
- 2015 - 2018: Scholarship of National Scheme for Cultivating Top-notch Students in Basic Disciplines, China
- 2015: The Second Prize, The 8th Undergraduate Physical Experiment Competition of Beijing
- 2015: The Second Prize, China Undergraduate Physics Tournament
- 2014-2015 & 2015-2016: The Second Prize Scholarship in Beijing Normal University, China
Schools, Workshops & Conferences
- March. 2024: Information Processing, Noise, and Adaptation in Living Systems - Signal24
- Dresden, Germany
- Contributed talk: Universal thermodynamic bounds on symmetry breaking in living systems: from error correction to pattern formation
- Jan. 2024: Modeling energy-consuming biomolecular processes
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Poster: Universal thermodynamic bounds on symmetry breaking in living systems: from error correction to pattern formation
- Aug. 2023: StatPhys28
- Tokyo, Japan
- Contributed talk: Universal thermodynamic bounds on symmetry breaking in living systems: from error correction to pattern formation
- Jun. 2023: Molecular Origins of Life, Munich
- May 2023: Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics - WOST IV
- ICTP, Italy
- Contributed talk: Universal thermodynamic bounds on symmetry breaking in living systems: from error correction to pattern formation [Video]
- Mar. 2023: APS March Meeting
- Online
- Contributed talk: Universal thermodynamic bounds on spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking
- Dec. 2022: (Post)modern Thermodynamics School & Workshop
- Luxembourg University, Luxembourg
- Poster: Emergent thermophoretic behavior in chemical reaction systems
- Sep. 2022: School on Information, Noise, and Physics of Life
- Niš, Serbia
- Jul. 2022: 7th Beijing Soft Matter Workshop
- Beijing, China
- Talk: Emergent thermophoretic behavior for particles with internal states
- Best Short Talk Award
- Jun. 2022: Molecular Origins of Life
- Munich, Germany
- Poster: Universal thermodynamic bounds on spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking
- May 2021: 14th International meeting on Thermodiffusion
- NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
- Poster: Thermophoresis of multi-state particles
- Sep. 2019: IX GEFENOL Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex Systems
- Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
- Aug. 2019: Mathematics of Deep Learning
- Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Aug. 2019: Bad Honnef Physics School: Physics of Bacteria
- Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany
- Jul. 2019: Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School
- ICTP, Trieste, Italy
- Poster: The cluster structure of high-efficiency photosystem (PS I)
- Jun. 2017: Introduction to Complex Systems Summer School
- Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Seminars
- Thermodynamic cost of spatiotemporal symmetry breaking, LMU, Munich, Germany, Nov 2023
- Thermodynamic cost of time-reversal symmetry breaking, MPI-PKS, Dresden, Germany, Nov 2023
- Thermodynamic cost to break spatiotemporal symmetry, BICMR, Peking University, Beijing, China, Aug 2023
- Why must life be out of equilibrium, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Aug 2023
- Thermodynamics on the origin and the present of life, ELSI, Tokyo, Japan, May 2023
- Thermodynamics on the origin and the present of life, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, May 2023
- Symmetry breaking in the present and origin of life, USTC, Hefei, China (Online), Jan 2023
- Non-isothermal chemical reaction networks: hints to the origins of life, MISANU, Serbia (Online), Nov 2022
Skills
- Programming Language: Python, Mathematica, MATLAB, C++
- Computer Skills: LaTeX, Jupyter Notebook, Git, Linux, Microsoft Office
- Scientific Computing: Numpy, Scipy, Sympy, Monte Carlo Simulation, Molecular Dynamics Simulation
- Machine Learning: Pytorch, TensorFlow