Zhanghuawei

Dr. Huawei Zhang received his BS in Food Sciences in 2000 and MS in Food Chemistry in 2003 from Northwest A&F University (China), and PhD in Natural Products Chemistry in 2006 from Nanjing University (China). After a postdoctoral fellow at Nanjing University for two years, he was appointed as a faculty member of Zhejiang University of Technology (China) in April 2008. As a visiting scholar, he stayed at Crews lab (University of California Santa Cruz, US) for one year. From August 2015 to February 2017, he was sent to National Center of Sci & Tech Talents of China as an officer on secondment. He had published over 100 peer-reviewed articles with more than 2,500 cited times and holds more than 20 issued Chinese patents. His research interest mainly focuses on discovery of new microbe-derived functional biomolecules as well as their biosynthetic logic and therapeutic application.

Dr. Huawei Zhang has been appointed as one member of Professional Committee of China Medicinal Fungus Society and Marine Pharmacology Committee of China Pharmacology Society. He was awarded the prize of “MDPI Excellent Reviewer” in 2021 and successively named on the list of “World`s Top 2% Scientists” in the discipline of Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry from 2021 to 2023.

Academic Homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huawei-Zhang-5

Huawei Zhang received his BS in Food Sciences in 2000 and his MS in Food Chemistry in 2003 from Northwest A&F University (China), and his PhD in Natural Products Chemistry in 2006 from Nanjing University (China) under the supervision of professor Renxiang Tan. After being a Post doctoral Fellow at Nanjing University for two years, he was appointed as a faculty member of Zhejiang University of Technology (China) in April 2008. During the period from August 2013 to August 2014, he spent one year as a visiting scientist with professor Phillip Crews at University of California Santa Cruz (USA). Till the end of 2021, Dr. Zhang had published over 100 articles with over 2200 cited times and held 20 authorized patents. He was ranked as one of the world`s top 2% scientists in 2021. He is one member of the Professional Committee of China Medicinal Fungus Society and of the Marine Pharmacology Committee of China Pharmacology Society.

During the past five years, professor Zhang obtained two national research projects National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC0311004) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (41776139) , one provincial project Fundamental Research Fund for the Provincial Universities of Zhejiang (China) (RF‐C2019002).  Till 2021, he had published over 100 peer-reviewed articles with more than 2400 cited times and holds more than 20 issued Chinese patents.He was listed in the "World`s Top 2% Scientists" in October 2021 and received 2021 MDPI Top Reviewer Award.