Shiling Liang

Research interests

out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, chemical reaction theory, biological physics

Education

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

2018 - 2020 M.Sc. in Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 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 APS DBIO Travel Awards (declined)

2023 JSPS Strategic Fellowship for research in Japan

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

2023 [7] 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.

[6] Liang, S., Pigolotti, S., 2023. Thermodynamic bounds on time-reversal asymmetry. Phys. Rev. E (Letter) 108, L062101.

2022 [5] Liang, S., De Los Rios, P. and Busiello, D.M., 2022. Universal thermodynamic bounds on symmetry breaking in biochemical systems. arXiv preprint, arXiv:2212.12074.

[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.

Research Experiences

Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 Thermodynamic Constraints on Symmetry Breaking in Biochemical Systems

Sep 2020 - Now Thermodynamics Costs of Spatiotemporal Symmetry Breaking

Feb 2019 - Jul 2020 Thermodynamic Origins of Life

Feb 2018 - Jun 2018 Modelling of Bacterial Biofilms

May 2016 - May 2017 Complex Network Approach for the High Efficiency Light-Harvesting System

Schools, Workshops & Conferences

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, Online, Poster: Emergent thermophoretic behavior in chemical reaction systems

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

Mar 2023 APS March Meeting, 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, Contributed 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 (Online), 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 System Summer School, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Seminars

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

Other activities

2022-now Creator and organizer of Statistical Physics Youth Communications