Dr. Guangzhi Zhang is currently an Assistant Researcher in the Division of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. He attained his PhD degree from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, in 2014, and then started postdoctoral study at the University of California, Berkeley. He came back to China in 2018 and has since worked at the Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He mainly studies veterinary bacteriology, with an emphasis on zoonosis and animal probiotics. He has published his work in ISME, Veterinary Research, Transboundary Emerging Diseases, Frontiers in Immunology, Plos One, Scientific Report, Microbiology, and other international journals. He is a member of the Belgium Immunology Society and a member of the American Association of Immunologists.