教授、博士生导师，四川大学华西基础医学与法医学院副院长，教育部重大人才计划特聘教授（2022），教育部法医学类高等教育教学指导委员会秘书长，中国法医学会常务理事，四川省司法鉴定协会会长，中国海峡两岸医药卫生交流协会法医学分会副会长，四川省医学综合类教指委委员，四川大学考古科学中心分子考古副主任。
主要在法医学、医学遗传学等领域从事教学及研究工作。已获得五项国家自然基金。获国家级教学成果奖两项，省教学成果奖一项，国家级一流专业建设点负责人，国家级拔尖计划2.0执行主任，国家级强基计划执行主任，负责国家级一流本科课程1门，部省级重点教改3项。主参编国家规划教材6本。迄今已发表SCI论文72篇。授权国内发明专利6项，国际发明专利1项。
学历:
2006年毕业于四川大学，法医学博士
2001年毕业于四川大学，法医学学士
工作简历:
2007年至今:四川大学教授
2012-2013：访问学者工作于德国科隆大学医学院法医学研究所
部分论文:
1: Zhu J, Lv M, Zhou N, Chen D, Jiang Y, Wang L, He W, Peng D, Li Z, Qu S, Wang Y, Wang H, Luo H, An G, Liang W, Zhang L. Genotyping polymorphic microhaplotype markers through the Illumina® MiSeq platform for forensics. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2018 Nov 16;39:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2018.11.005. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed PMID: 30472641
2: Tan Y, Bai P, Wang L, Wang H, Tian H, Jian H, Zhang R, Liu Y, Liang W, Zhang L. Two-person DNA mixture interpretation based on a novel set of SNP-STR markers. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2018 Nov;37:37-45. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2018.07.021. Epub 2018 Jul 26. PubMed PMID: 30075395
3: Wang Q, Jin B, An G, Zhong Q, Chen M, Luo X, Li Z, Jiang Y, Liang W, Zhang L. Rapidly mutating Y-STRs study in Chinese Yi population. Int J Legal Med. 2018 Jul 30. doi: 10.1007/s00414-018-1894-5. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed PMID: 30062654
4: Chen P, Zhu W, Tong F, Pu Y, Yu Y, Huang S, Li Z, Zhang L, Liang W, Chen F. Identifying novel microhaplotypes for ancestry inference. Int J Legal Med. 2018 Jun 23. doi: 10.1007/s00414-018-1881-x. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed PMID: 29936540
5: Chen P, Yin C, Li Z, Pu Y, Yu Y, Zhao P, Chen D, Liang W, Zhang L, Chen F. Evaluation of the Microhaplotypes panel for DNA mixture analyses. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2018 Jul;35:149-155. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2018.05.003. Epub 2018 May 12. PubMed PMID: 29778046
6: Cao S, Bai P, Zhu W, Chen D, Wang H, Jin B, Zhang L, Liang W. Genetic portrait of 27 Y-STR loci in the Tibetan ethnic population of the Qinghai province of China. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2018 May;34:e18-e19. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2018.02.005. Epub 2018 Feb 5. PubMed PMID: 29514769
7: Tian H, Lv M, Li Z, Peng D, Tan Y, Wang H, Li Q, Li F, Liang W. Semen-specific miRNAs: Suitable for the distinction of infertile semen in the body fluid identification? Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2018 Mar;33:161-167. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.12.010. Epub 2017 Dec 19. PubMed PMID: 29304462
8: Tan Y, Wang L, Wang H, Tian H, Li Z, Wang Q, Jian H, Cao S, Liang W, Zhang L. An investigation of a set of DIP-STR markers to detect unbalanced DNA mixtures among the southwest Chinese Han population. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2017 Nov;31:34-39. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.08.014. Epub 2017 Aug 14. PubMed PMID: 28826062
9: He G, Li Y, Wang Z, Liang W, Luo H, Liao M, Zhang J, Yan J, Li Y, Hou Y, Wu J. Genetic diversity of 21 autosomal STR loci in the Han population from Sichuan province, Southwest China. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2017 Nov;31:e33-e35. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.07.006. Epub 2017 Jul 17. PubMed PMID: 28743451
10: Li Z, Bai P, Peng D, Wang H, Guo Y, Jiang Y, He W, Tian H, Yang Y, Huang Y, Long B, Liang W, Zhang L. Screening and confirmation of microRNA markers for distinguishing between menstrual and peripheral blood. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2017 Sep;30:24-33. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.05.012. Epub 2017 Jun 3. PubMed PMID: 28605652
编写的部分教材：
生物物证采集与检验教程,第1版,中国文史出版社,北京,2016.9
法医物证学实验指导，第2版,人民卫生出版社,北京,2016.3
法医昆虫学，第1版,人民卫生出版社,北京,2015.12