B.E.  Beijing University of Chemical Technology    1990, 06
M.S.  Beijing University of Chemical Technology    1992, 12
Ph.D. Beijing University of Chemical Technology    1995, 12
Working experiences:
Assistant Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology 1995-1996
Associate Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology 1996-1998
Professor,         Beijing University of Chemical Technology 1998-now
Visiting Scientist, University of Akron, USA                 1999-2000
Postdoctor,         Case Western Reserve University, USA,      2000-2001

Prof Zhang has been very active in the research field of rubber science and technology for over 25 years since his bachelor thesis in 1989 and has been leading the Center of Advanced Elastomer Materials (www.caem.buct.edu.cn), which holds a leading position in China in the field of rubber science and technology and possesses an internationally well recognized fame. He is also the head of Key Lab. of Beijing City on Preparation and Processing of Novel Polymer Materials, the head of Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Energy and Resource Saved Elastomers, and associate head of State Key Lab of Organic-Inorganic Composites, China. He is the fellow of China Chemistry Industry and Engineering Society, the fellow of China Materials Research Society, the fellow of China Composite Materials Society, the fellow of China Nano Science and Technology Society, vice president of China Rubber Division, vice president of China Polymer Materials Engineering Division, and vice president of China Micro-Nano Composites Division, etc. Currently, he is serving as an editorial board member of the “Journal of Applied Polymer Science (USA)”, “Rubber Chemistry and Technology (USA)”, “Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Molecular Engineering (UK)”, “Elastomers and Composites (Korea)” and other 9 Chinese scientific journals.

His current research interests are (I) preparation and processing of advanced and novel rubber nanocomposites, (II) complex structure description and the relation between multi-scaled structures and performance of rubber composites by advanced simulation methodology and instruments, (III) design, synthesis and processing of new generation Biobased Engineering Elastomers. His research center and team members also work on the bioelastomers, functional rubber composites, rubber recycling and reutilization, and specially serviced rubber materials and production design. Around these fields, he has published over 300 international papers on above subjects and some of them are in highly reputed journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, Macromolecules, Macromolecular Rapid Communication, Langmuir, Polymer, and Progress in Polymer Science. His papers have been cited by peers in a positive manner for over 3000 times (SCI system) with an H-index of 30. He is a (co-)author of 8 books (chapters) and has given over 60 plenary/keynote/invited lectures in international conferences and over 60 plenary/invited lectures in Chinese ones. He had chaired many sessions in international conferences and 4 times co-chaired conferences or taken the vice-chairman of program committee of International Rubber Conferences. He and his team members have filed 160 Chinese patents and 3 international ones, and over 100 of them have been proved. He has received many high reputed scientific awards from relative Association, Society, Ministry and Committee of China including prestigious “9th China Youth Scientific Award” and “National Invention Award”. In 2012, he received Spark-Thomas Award from ACS Rubber Division, Asia Research Award from Society of Chemical Engineering of Japan and Morand Lambla Award from International Polymer Processing Society, which were due to his important contributions to rubber science and technology.