Luoping Zhang is an Adjunct Professor of Toxicology at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA. She received her B.S. in Physical Chemistry from Wuhan University in 1982, her M.S. in Biochemistry from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1985, and her Ph.D. in Biochemical Toxicology from Simon Fraser University in 1993. She is also a member of the American Association of Chinese in Toxicology, the Society of Toxicology (SOT), the Northern California Society of Toxicology (NorCal SOT), and the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS). Her research is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and toxicity caused by human exposure to benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, and many other toxic chemicals in the environment.