CV

last update: 26.12.2022

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

Jan. 2022 - June 2022: 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: Non-equilibrium Reaction Networks and the Origins of Life
- PhD project at LBS, EPFL
- Supervisors: Prof. Paolo De Los Rios
Feb. 2019 - July 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 - 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)

Liang, Shiling, Paolo De Los Rios, and Daniel Maria Busiello. “Universal thermodynamic bounds on symmetry breaking in biochemical systems”, arXiv, 2212,12074 (2022)
Liang, Shiling, Daniel Maria Busiello, and Paolo De Los Rios. “Emergent thermophoretic behavior in chemical reaction systems.” New Journal of Physics, 24 123006 (2022).
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.
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.

2023: JSPS Fellowship (Strategic) for research in Japan
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

Dec. 2022: (Post)modern Thermodynamics School & Workshop
- Luxembourg University, Luxembourg
- Poster: Emergent thermophoretic behavior in chemical reaction systems
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

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