Please welcome Dr. Liang Li to the Whitney Laboratory! Dr. Li has joined the Liao Lab as a Research Scholar for three months, funded by the European project 'iNavigate'. During his stay, he is interested in conducting experiments with flow visualizations of fish swimming, collecting schooling fish data, experimenting with schooling robots, and more.
Dr. Li is a Project Leader (PI) at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Konstanz. He received his bachelor's degree in automation from Chongqing University in 2011 and his PhD in general mechanics and foundations of mechanics from Peking University in 2017. From February 2017 to June 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Collective Behavior at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany. His research interests include bio-inspired robots, swarm robots, collective behavior in hybrid animal-robot systems, and bio-fluid dynamics in fish schools.