Brief Introduction

LIU Song earned his bachelor degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014 and Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018. Then he did postdoctoral xingkong星空集团官网 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong during 2018-2019 and at Institute for Basic Science, South Korea during 2019-2022, before joining Southern University of Science and Technology in 2022.

The xingkong星空集团官网 focuses on the interdisciplinary study of fluid, biophysics and soft matter, exploring novel collective behaviors of microbes, revealing the associated mechanisms and building new frameworks for out-of-equilibrium physics. The main xingkong星空集团官网 achievements are discovering bacterial collective oscillation without local oscillators which reveals novel long-range order in self-propelled system; discovering polymer concentration controlled bacterial giant vortex which proves for the first time in experiments that fluid viscoelasticity can control the self-organization of active matter. The related works lead to two xingkong星空集团官网 papers published Nature journal, enhancing the understanding of self-organization of active matter.

xingkong星空集团官网 Interests

◆Active Fluid

◆Collective Behaviors of Microbes

◆Soft Matter

Educational Background

xingkong星空集团官网0-2014, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Bachelor of Science

xingkong星空集团官网4-2018, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ph.D. in Physics

Professional Experience

xingkong星空集团官网8-2019, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Postdoctoral Researcher

xingkong星空集团官网9-2022, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea, Postdoctoral Researcher

Honors & Awards

xingkong星空集团官网7, Physics Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, C N Yang Scholarship for Postgraduate Students

xingkong星空集团官网8, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Postgraduate Research Output Award

Selected Publications

[2] Liu, S.*, Shankar, S.*, Marchetti, M. C., & Wu, Y. (2021) Viscoelastic control of

spatiotemporal order in bacterial active matter. Nature, 590(7844), 80-84. (*co-first

authors)

[1] Chong Chen*, Song Liu*, Xiaqing Shi, Hugues Chaté, Yilin Wu (2017) Weak

synchronization and large-scale collective oscillation in dense bacterial suspensions. Nature, 542, 210–214. (*co-first authors).