CV
last update: 21.07.2024
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
[8] Liang, S., De Los Rios, P. and Busiello, D. M., 2024. Thermodynamic Space of Chemical Reaction Networks. arXiv preprint, arXiv:2407.11498.
[7] Liang, S., De Los Rios, P. and Busiello, D.M., 2024. Thermodynamic Bounds on Symmetry Breaking in Linear and Catalytic Biochemical Systems. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 228402.
[6] Liang, S., Ma, Y.-H., Busiello, D.M. and De Los Rios, P., 2023. A Minimal Model for Carnot Efficiency at Maximum Power. arXiv preprint, arXiv:2312.02323.
[5] Liang, S., Pigolotti, S., 2023. Thermodynamic bounds on time-reversal asymmetry. Phys. Rev. E (Letter) 108, L062101.
[4] Liang, S., Busiello, D.M. and De Los Rios, P., 2022. Emergent thermophoretic behavior in chemical reaction systems. New Journal of Physics, 24(12), p.123006.
[3] Liang, S., De Los Rios, P. and Busiello, D.M., 2021. Dissipation-Driven Selection under Finite Diffusion: Hints from Equilibrium and Separation of Time Scales. Entropy, 23(8), p.1068.
[2] Busiello, D.M., Liang, S., Piazza, F. and De Los Rios, P., 2021. Dissipation-driven selection of states in non-equilibrium chemical networks. Communications Chemistry, 4(1), p.16.
[1] Dass, A.V., Georgelin, T., Westall, F., Foucher, F., De Los Rios, P., Busiello, D.M., Liang, S. and Piazza, F., 2021. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium furanose selection in the ribose isomerisation network. Nature communications, 12(1), p.2749.
Awards, Grants & Honours
- 2024: ELBE Postdoctoral Fellowship, CSBD
- 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
Schools, Workshops & Conferences
- July 2024: Frontiers in Non-equilibrium Physics 2024,
- YITP, Kyoto, Japan
- Contributed talk: A Minimal model for Carnot efficiency at maximum power
- 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 Constraints on Biological Processes, CSBD, Dresden, Germany, May 2024
- 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