Dr. Yifei Zhang is a Professor in the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He earned his bachelor degree in 2010 and his Ph.D. degree in 2015 from Chemical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His doctoral research focused on the engineering of nanostructured and stimulus-responsive enzyme catalysts. For his postdoctoral research he studied enzyme cascades in the laboratory of Prof. Henry Hess at Columbia University. His current research interests include nanobiotechnology, biocatalysis, synthetic biology and adaptive biochemical systems. He was recognized as a finalist of
the 2020 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists.