Introduction

Dr. Xitong Liang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences at Peking University. He is also an Investigator at IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and at Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences. He received his B.S. in Biology from Peking University and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Gilles Laurent at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Germany, where he started to study the neurobiology of cephalopods (e.g., octopus, squid, and cuttlefish) with a particular focus on their remarkable color change and camouflage behaviors.

Dr. Liang’s research interests include the diversity and evolution of animal behavior and neural circuits, as well as the brain-inspired AI and biomimetic soft robotics.