Dr Zhang finished his PhD study in Marseille, France. He then received a EMBO Long-Term Fellowship to work on c-di-AMP in Staphylococcus aureus at Imperial College London. After that, he moved to University of Copenhagen, Denmark to work on ppGpp with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. He is now an Associate professor at University of Copenhagen.

Working experiences

•   2024, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

•   2019- 2024, Tenure Track Assistant professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

•  2016-2018, MSCA Research Fellow, Centre of Bacterial Stress Response and Persistence (BASP), University of Copenhagen, Denmark

•   2014-2016, Visiting Researcher, Centre of Molecular Bacteriology and Infection (CMBI), Imperial College London, UK

Education

•    2008-2011, Ph.D. program at University of Aix-Marseille II & CNRS, France

•   2006-2012, Master-PhD continuous study program in Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, PR China

•    2002-2006, Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, Shandong University, PR China

Awards

•   Selected as UCPH Forward Fellow, Talent Program for Excellence in Research, 2024

•   Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (No 707138), 2016-2018 (total amount, 212,194.80 EUR)

•   EMBO Long-Term Fellowship (ALTF 721-2013), 2014-2016 (total amount, 53,633 GBP)

Teaching

•  Molecular Microbiology, Bachelor course, course responsible: Yong Zhang

  Taught this course from the fall of 2016 for 3 consecutive years, and led the course from 2019/2020.

•  Molecular Biology, for the Biomedicine bachelor students, course responsible: Michael Lisby

ORCID 0000-0003-2968-0081