Dr. Liang Li
IMPRS Faculty
Researchers
Research Group Li
Main Focus
The Embodied Collective Intelligence Lab investigates how collective behavior emerges from the physical interactions between agents and their environment—across both biological and robotic systems. By integrating experimental studies of animal groups with the design of bio-inspired robots, we explore the bidirectional exchange between biology and robotics: using bioinspired robotic systems to generate and test biological hypotheses in biology, and as a return, drawing principles discovered in biology to robotic systems. Our work bridges embodied cognition, swarm intelligence, robotics, fluid dynamics, and collective behavior, aiming to uncover the fundamental rules that govern coordination in biological and robotic collectives. Our group is small, interdiciplinary, and international- contact me if you are interested in what we do!
Curriculum Vitae
- 2025 Appointed group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
- 2022-2024 Project Leader, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz
- 2021-2022 Project Leader, Department of Collective Behavior, the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
- 2017-2021 PostDoc, Department of Collective Behavior, the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (previously MPI for Ornithology) in Konstanz
- 2011-2017 Ph.D., Robotics and Control, College of Engineering, Peking University, China