Yong-Qiang Zhang was born in 1985 in Lanzhou, China. He earned his B.S. in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2011 from Lanzhou University under the mentorship of Professor Yongqiang Tu. After a brief research stint at Georgia State University, USA, he won a Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship to advance his research in Professor Andreas Gansäuer's group at the Kekulé-Institute, University of Bonn, Germany. Subsequently, he pursued another postdoctoral position in Professor Christa Müller's group at the university's pharmaceutical institute before joining Shandong University in China in 2019.
Yong-Qiang Zhang currently serves as an outstanding young scholar professor at Shandong University. His main research interests are asymmetric titanium radical catalysis and the synthesis of bioactive natural products and pharmaceuticals.