CV
last update: 08.11.2022
Education
2020 - Present: 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
- Sep. 2020 - Now: Non-equilibrium Reaction Networks and the Origins of Life
- PhD project at LBS, EPFL
- Supervisors: Prof. Paolo De Los Rios
- Feb. 2019 - Jul. 2020: Thermodynamic 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 - Jun. 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)
Schools, Workshops & Conferences
- Nov. 2022: Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Mathematical Biology Seminar
- Mathematical institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Online)
- Invited talk: Non-isothermal chemical reaction networks: hints to the origins of life
- 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. 2018: Introduction to Complex Systems Summer School
- Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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
Publications
Liang, Shiling, 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.
Busiello, Daniel Maria, 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.
Liang, Shiling, Daniel Maria Busiello, and Paolo De Los Rios. “The intrinsic non-equilibrium nature of thermophoresis.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03197 (2021).
Dass, Avinash Vicholous, 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
- 2023: JSPS fellowship for research in Japan (5 months)
- 2022: Best Short Talk Award, 7th Beijing Soft Matter Workshop
- 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