Professor Zhang holds tenured faculty position at Tsinghua Medicine of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is also Vanke endowed Chair professor, Bayer endowed Chair professor, and adjunct professor of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. He is the Director of Comprehensive AIDS Research Center, China Director of Indonesia-China Joint Research and Development Center on Vaccines and Genomics, China coordinator of Singapore-China Pandemic Preparedness Project, and Founding member of Pandemic Research Alliance. Prof. Zhang's research focuses on HIV-1 pathogenesis and vaccine development, and has recently expanded to the field of emerging and re-emerging human viral pathogens such as SARS-CoV-1/2 and MERS-CoV. Using cutting-edge antibody and combinatorial antigen library techniques, Prof. Zhang’s research aims to characterize protective antibody immunity in infected humans and rational design of effective vaccines and therapies against the viral infection. Professor Zhang is the recipient of the National Outstanding Young Scientist Award, privileged Changjiang Professorship, and Bayer and Vanke Chair professor. He has published extensively and is among the most cited Chinese researchers in the field of microbiology and immunology. Professor Zhang has also served as a member of national expert and advisory board to the Chinese government and several international organizations on HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases, and was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.