Zhonghui Zhang, PhD, Professor,and doctoral supervisor. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Sun Yat-sen University in 2003 and his PhD in Botany from Sun Yat-sen University in 2009. He worked at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 2009 to 2011 and conducted postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University from 2011 to 2017. In 2017, he joined the School of Life Sciences of South China Normal University. He conducts research in the field of epigenetic regulation of plant development and environmental stress adaptation.