Zhang Xiangyang is a professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He worked in Beijing Huilongguan Hospital from 1989 to 1999; as an associate researcher in the Department of Psychiatry of the Yale University School of Medicine, USA, from 2003 to 2006; and as an associate professor and chief physician in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Texas at the Houston School of Medicine, USA, from 2014 to 2018. Since 2018, he has been a researcher at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interest is the brain mechanism behind and the regulation of emotional and cognitive impairment in mental illness. He is the Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Psychiatric Association and a scholar of the Class A 100-person program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.