Zhonghan Zhang is an Associate Researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Shandong University in 2010 and acquired PhD from Università di Pisa in 2016. He was a CNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at Chimie ParisTech, France from 2017 to 2018. His main research areas include crystal growth of laser and optical crystals, optical characterization of rare-earth doped materials, and single-crystal fiber growth research.