Fuzhong Zhang is a professor in the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his bachelor degree from Peking University, his master degree from McMaster University, his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and postdoctoral training at the UC Berkeley/Joint BioEnergy Institute. His research focuses on developing synthetic biology tools and systems for the sustainable production of structurally defined chemicals and high-performance materials. Since he joined Washington University in 2012, he has received numerous awards, including the DARPA Young Faculty Award (2013), the ORAU Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2013), the NSF CAREER Award (2014), the Young Investigator Program from AFOSR, ONR, and HFSP (2015), the NASA Early Career Faculty Award (2015), the Biotech & Bioeng Daniel Wang Award (2016), the Dean’s Faculty Award for Innovation in Research (2016), the SIMB Young Investigator Award (2017), and the NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (2019).