Academic background

2024-present	Visiting PhD student, University of Zurich
2022-present	PhD student, Beijing Forestry University, China
2019-2022	MSc student, China West Normal University, China
2014-2018	BSc student, China West Normal University, China

Scholarships, Awards and Honours

2023	Scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC)

Selected publications

Complete list here

Liao WB, Jiang Y, Jin L & Lüpold S. 2023. How hibernation in frogs drives brain and reproductive evolution in opposite directions. eLife 12: RP88236. doi: 10.7554/eLife.88236.1

Jiang Y, Luan X & Liao WB. 2023. Anuran brain size predicts food availability-driven population density. Science China Life Sciences 66: 415-417. doi: 10.1007/s11427-022-2177-2

Jiang Y, Yuan L & Liao WB. 2023. Chemical defense mediates population density-driven on anuran brain size evolution. Science China Life Sciences. doi: 10.1007/s11427-023-2440-4

Liao WB, Jiang Y, Li DY, Lin J, Zhong MJ, Yin Y, Lüpold S & Kotrschal A. 2022. Cognition contra camouflage: how the brain mediates predator-driven crypsis evolution. Science Advances 8: eabq1878. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abq1878

Jiang Y, Chen C & Liao WB. 2022. Anuran interorbital distance variation: the role of ecological and behavioral factors. Integrative Zoology 17: 777-786. doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12653