Prof. Dr. Ya-nan Zhang is a Professor at the State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China. He earned his Ph.D. at the Dalian University of Technology in 2016. He was awarded the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund in 2024. His research field focus is on environmental photochemistry, environmental computational chemistry, and pollution control chemistry.