Shiling Liang

Research interests

stochastic thermodynamics, chemical reaction theory, biological physics

Professional Experiences

2024 - now ELBE Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for System Biology Dresden (CSBD) | Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems (PKS) | Cell Biology and Genetics (CBG), Dresden, Germany

2023 JSPS Fellow (Strategic Program)
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa, Japan

Education

2020 - 2024 Ph.D. in Physics
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

2018 - 2020 M.Sc. in Physics
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

2016 - 2018 B.Sc. in Physics
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

2014 - 2018 B.Sc. in Physics
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Awards, Grants & Honours

2024 ELBE Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD)

2024 APS DBIO Travel Awards (declined due to visa issue)

2023 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Strategic Fellowship

2022 Best Short Talk Award, 7th Beijing Soft Matter Workshop

2016 - 2017 Research Grant of China National University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Program

2015 - 2018 Scholarship of China National Scheme for Cultivating Top-notch Students in Basic Disciplines

Publications

2024 [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.

2023 [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.

2022 [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.

2021 [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.

Invited Talks

2024 Thermodynamic Constraints on Biological Processes, ELBE Symposium, Dresden, Germany, May 2024

2023 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

From origins of life to thermodynamic bounds on symmetry breaking, Peking University, Beijing, China, Jul 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

2022 Non-isothermal chemical reaction networks: hints to the origins of life, MISANU, Serbia (Online), Nov 2022