Liping Wang received his Ph.D. in medical neuroscience from Charite -Universitatsmedizin Berlin with Prof. Helmut Kettenmann at the Department of Cellular Neurosciences, Max-Delbruck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in 2005 and did his postdoctoral work at the Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University with Prof. Karl Deisseroth from 2005 to 2008. Then he joined SIAT, working as associate professor, professor and vice director of Biomedical and Health Engineering Institute from 2009 to 2014. Since 2014, He has become the director of BCBDI, SIAT. He is the founder and director of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain Connectome and Behavior, Shenzhen Key Lab of Neuropsychiatric Modulation. He served as the vice president of the Chinese Neuroscience Society, the director of Collaborative Innovation of Science and Technology Committee of Chinese Neuroscience Society, the director of Chinese Society for Cognitive Science, the chairman of Autonomic Nerve Professional Committee of Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences, and the president of Shenzhen Society for Neuroscience.

Dr. Liping Wang’s research interest focuses on: 1) dissecting the mechanisms of subcortical neural circuits involved in innate behaviours, including fear, feeding and sleeping, and the conflicts between these needs; 2) elucidating the structural and functional interaction between central nervous and peripheral systems under physiological and pathological conditions, and their comorbidity with mental disorders; 3) developing new research tools and technologies for fine behavioural identification and functional dissection of neural circuits.

1. Xiaoyuan J#, Zhibin X# ,  Qixing Y # , Yan J # , Jintao Wang , Ruoxi Wang, Yuantao Li , Rouxuan Zhou, Wang L*, Zuxin Chen*, Xin-An Liu*.(2025)Unraveling Sexually Dimorphic Offspring Behaviors: Maternal Premating Stress and the Neuro-Microbial-Metabolic Network.Mol Psychiatry.doi: 10.1038/s41380-025-03378-2. 
2.Liu X#*, Lai J#, Han C#, Zhong H, Huang K, Liu Y, Zhu X, Wei P, Tan L, Xu F, Wang Liping*. Neural circuit underlying individual differences in visual escape habituation. Neuron 113(2025):2344-2357.e5.
3.Jialin Ye#;Yang Xu;Kang Huang;Xinyu Wang;Liping Wang*;Feng Wang*.Hierarchical behavioral analysis framework as a platform for standardized quantitative identification of behaviors.Cell Reports.（2025）44,115239
4.Tseng Y-T#, Schaefke B#, Wei P#, Wang Liping#*. Defensive responses: behaviour, the brain and the body. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 24(2023): 655–671.
5.Liu Q#, Yang X#, Luo M#, Su J, Zhong J, Li X, Chan RHM, Wang Liping*. An Iterative Neural Processing Sequence Orchestrates Feeding. Neuron, 111(2023): 1651-1665.e5.
6.Tseng Y-T#, Zhao B#, Chen S#, Ye J, Liu J, Liang L, Ding H, Schaefke B, Yang Q, Wang Lina, Wang F, Wang Liping*. The subthalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons mediate adaptive REM-sleep responses to threat. Neuron 110(2022): 1223-1239.e8.
7.Zhou Z#, Liu X#, Chen S, Zhang Z, Liu Y, Montardy Q, Tang Y, Wei P, Liu N, Li L, Song R, Lai J, He X, Chen C, Bi G, Feng G, Xu F*, Wang Liping*. A VTA GABAergic Neural Circuit Mediates Visually Evoked Innate Defensive Responses. Neuron 103(2019):473-488.e6.

Dr. Liping Wang received the Special Government Allowances of the State Council (2024), and he was a winner of Guangdong Ding Ying Science and Technology Award (2023), “the most beautiful scientific and technological worker in Guangdong” (2022), the first prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award (2018), “Chang Jiang Scholars Distinguished Professor” (2017) and “Ten Thousand Talent Program Leading Scientist” (2016). He was also supported by “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars” (2014), and “Hundred Talent Program” (2010).